1 Timothy 1:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; [so do I now].

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μηδὲ προσέχειν μύθοις καὶ γενεαλογίαις ἀπεράντοις, αἵτινες ζητήσεις παρέχουσιν, μᾶλλον ἢ οἰκονομίαν Θεοῦ τὴν ἐν πίστει.

Transliteration

Nor prosechein mythois and genealogiais aperantois, which zētēseis parechousin, rather than oikonomian Theou the one in pistei.

Grammar Details

*Mēde*: negative conjunction - neither/nor/and not
*prosechein*: present active infinitive - to pay attention to/devote oneself to
*mythois*: dative, masculine, plural - object of attention
*kai*: conjunction - and
*genealogiais*: dative, feminine, plural - object of attention
*aperantois*: dative, feminine, plural - adjective describing genealogies
*haitines*: nominative, feminine, plural, relative pronoun - which (referring to myths and genealogies)
*zētēseis*: accusative, feminine, plural - direct object of provide
*parechousin*: present active indicative, 3rd person plural - they provide/furnish
*mallon*: adverb - rather/instead
*ē*: comparative particle - than
*oikonomian*: accusative, feminine, singular - direct object of contrast
*Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - possessive/source
*tēn*: accusative, feminine, singular, article - the
*en*: preposition + dative - in
*pistei*: dative, feminine, singular - sphere/realm

Word Meanings

*prosechein*: pay attention to/devote oneself to/focus on
*mythois*: myths/fables/tales
*genealogiais*: genealogies/ancestry records
*aperantois*: endless/infinite/interminable
*zētēseis*: speculations/controversies/debates/questionings
*parechousin*: produce/cause/provide
*oikonomian*: administration/stewardship/arrangement/plan
*pistei*: faith/belief/trust

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Tim 4:7 : 7 but refuse profane and old wives' fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness:
Titus 3:9 : 9 but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Titus 1:14 : 14 not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
2 Pet 1:16 : 16 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2 Tim 4:4 : 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.
2 Tim 2:14 : 14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.
2 Tim 2:16-18 : 16 But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness, 17 and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; 18 men who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some.
1 Tim 6:3-5 : 3 If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 4 he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof {G1537} cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 5 wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.
1 Tim 6:11 : 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
1 Tim 6:20 : 20 O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto [thee], turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;
2 Tim 2:22 : 22 But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen of angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.
Heb 13:9 : 9 Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by meats, wherein {G1722} they that occupied themselves were not profited.
Titus 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2 Cor 7:9-9 : 9 I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing. 10 For {G2596} godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, [a repentance] which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Eph 4:12-16 : 12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ: 13 till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14 that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, {G3588} after the wiles of error; 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ; 16 from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in [due] measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

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