1 Timothy 4:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

But cast away prophane, and olde wiues fables, and exercise thy selfe vnto godlinesse.

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  • 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 Neither that they giue heede to fables and genealogies which are endles, which breede questions rather then godly edifying which is by fayth.
  • 2 Tim 2:16 : 16 Stay prophane, and vaine babblings: for they shall encrease vnto more vngodlinesse.
  • Titus 2:12 : 12 And teacheth vs that we should denie vngodlinesse and worldly lusts, and that we should liue soberly and righteously, and godly in this present world,
  • Titus 3:9 : 9 But stay foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and brawlings about the Lawe: for they are vnprofitable and vaine.
  • Heb 5:14 : 14 But strong meate belongeth to them that are of age, which through long custome haue their wits exercised, to discerne both good and euill.
  • 2 Pet 1:5-8 : 5 Therefore giue euen all diligence thereunto: ioyne moreouer vertue with your faith: and with vertue, knowledge: 6 And with knowledge, temperance: and with temperance, patience: and with patience, godlines: 7 And with godlines, brotherly kindnes: and with brotherly kindnes, loue. 8 For if these things be among you, and abound, they will make you that ye neither shalbe idle, nor vnfruitfull in the acknowledging of our Lord Iesus Christ:
  • Acts 24:16 : 16 And herein I endeuour my selfe to haue alway a cleare conscience towarde God, and toward men.
  • 2 Tim 2:23 : 23 And put away foolish and vnlearned questions, knowing that they ingender strife.
  • 2 Tim 3:12 : 12 Yea, and all that will liue godly in Christ Iesus, shall suffer persecution.
  • 2 Tim 4:4 : 4 And shall turne their eares from the trueth, and shalbe giuen vnto fables.
  • Titus 1:14 : 14 And not taking heede to Iewish fables and commaundements of men, that turne away from the trueth.
  • 1 Tim 2:10 : 10 But (as becommeth women that professe the feare of God) with good workes.
  • 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without controuersie, great is the mysterie of godlinesse, which is, God is manifested in the flesh, iustified in the Spirit, seene of Angels, preached vnto the Gentiles, beleeued on in the world, and receiued vp in glorie.
  • 1 Tim 6:11 : 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and followe after righteousnesse, godlines, faith, loue, patience, and meekenes.
  • 1 Tim 6:20 : 20 O Timotheus, keepe that which is committed vnto thee, and auoide prophane and vaine babblings, and oppositios of science falsely so called,

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  • 1 Tim 4:8-9
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    8For bodily exercise profiteth litle: but godlinesse is profitable vnto all things, which hath the promes of the life present, and of that that is to come.

    9This is a true saying, and by all meanes worthie to be receiued.

  • 1 Tim 1:3-4
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    3As I besought thee to abide still in Ephesus, when I departed into Macedonia, so doe, that thou mayest warne some, that they teach none other doctrine,

    4Neither that they giue heede to fables and genealogies which are endles, which breede questions rather then godly edifying which is by fayth.

  • 1 Tim 4:5-6
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    5For it is sanctified by the worde of God, and prayer.

    6If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Iesus Christ, which hast bene nourished vp in the wordes of faith, and of good doctrine, which thou hast continually followed.

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    14And not taking heede to Iewish fables and commaundements of men, that turne away from the trueth.

  • 2 Tim 2:14-16
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    14Of these things put them in remembrance, and protest before the Lord, that they striue not about wordes, which is to no profit, but to the peruerting of the hearers.

    15Studie to shewe thy selfe approued vnto God, a workeman that needeth not to be ashamed, diuiding the worde of trueth aright.

    16Stay prophane, and vaine babblings: for they shall encrease vnto more vngodlinesse.

  • 1 Tim 4:11-16
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    11These things warne and teache.

    12Let no man despise thy youth, but be vnto them that beleeue, an ensample, in worde, in conuersation, in loue, in spirit, in faith, and in purenesse.

    13Till I come, giue attendance to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine.

    14Despise not the gift that is in thee, which was giuen thee by prophecie with the laying on of the hands of the companie of the Eldership.

    15These things exercise, and giue thy selfe vnto them, that it may be seene howe thou profitest among all men.

    16Take heede vnto thy selfe, and vnto learning: continue therein: for in doing this thou shalt both saue thy selfe, & them that heare thee.

  • 1 Tim 6:5
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    5Frowarde disputations of men of corrupt mindes & destitute of ye trueth, which thinke that gaine is godlines: from such separate thy selfe.

  • 1 Tim 6:20
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    20O Timotheus, keepe that which is committed vnto thee, and auoide prophane and vaine babblings, and oppositios of science falsely so called,

  • Titus 3:8-9
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    8This is a true saying, and these thinges I will thou shouldest affirme, that they which haue beleeued God, might be carefull to shewe foorth good woorkes. These things are good and profitable vnto men.

    9But stay foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and brawlings about the Lawe: for they are vnprofitable and vaine.

  • 1 Tim 6:11
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    11But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and followe after righteousnesse, godlines, faith, loue, patience, and meekenes.

  • 2 Tim 3:5
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    5Hauing a shewe of godlinesse, but haue denied the power thereof: turne away therefore from such.

  • 2 Tim 4:4
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    4And shall turne their eares from the trueth, and shalbe giuen vnto fables.

  • 1 Tim 6:3
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    3If any man teach otherwise, and consenteth not to the wholesome wordes of our Lorde Iesus Christ, and to the doctrine, which is according to godlinesse,

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    11But refuse the yonger widowes: for when they haue begun to waxe wanton against Christ, they will marrie,

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    22Flee also from the lustes of youth, and follow after righteousnes, faith, loue, and peace, with them that call on the Lorde with pure heart,

    23And put away foolish and vnlearned questions, knowing that they ingender strife.

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    3Forbidding to marrie, and commanding to absteine from meates which God hath created to be receiued with giuing thankes of them which beleeue and knowe the trueth.

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    1Bvt speake thou the thinges which become wholesome doctrine,

    2That the elder men be watchful, graue, teperate, sounde in the faith, in loue, & in patience:

    3The elder women likewise, that they be in such behauiour as becommeth holinesse, not false accusers, not subiect to much wine, but teachers of honest things,

    4That they may instruct the yong women to be sober minded, that they loue their husbads, that they loue their children,

    5That they be temperate, chaste, keeping at home, good & subiect vnto their husbands, that the word of God be not euill spoken of.

    6Exhort yong men likewise, that they bee sober minded.

    7In all things shewe thy selfe an ensample of good woorkes with vncorrupt doctrine, with grauitie, integritie,

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    10But (as becommeth women that professe the feare of God) with good workes.

  • 2 Pet 1:5-7
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    5Therefore giue euen all diligence thereunto: ioyne moreouer vertue with your faith: and with vertue, knowledge:

    6And with knowledge, temperance: and with temperance, patience: and with patience, godlines:

    7And with godlines, brotherly kindnes: and with brotherly kindnes, loue.

  • Heb 13:9
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    9Be not caried about with diuers & strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be stablished with grace, and not with meates, which haue not profited them that haue bene occupied therein.

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    12And teacheth vs that we should denie vngodlinesse and worldly lusts, and that we should liue soberly and righteously, and godly in this present world,

  • 1 Thess 4:3
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    3For this is the will of God euen your sanctification, and that ye should abstaine from fornication,

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    6From the which things some haue erred, and haue turned vnto vaine iangling.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4Wherein it seemeth to them strange, that yee runne not with them vnto the same excesse of riot: therefore speake they euill of you,

  • 1 Tim 1:18
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    18This commaundement commit I vnto thee, sonne Timotheus, according to the prophecies, which went before vpon thee, that thou by them shouldest fight a good fight,

  • 2 Cor 7:1
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    1Seing then we haue these promises, dearely beloued, let vs clense our selues from all filthinesse of the flesh and spirit, and finish our sanctification in the feare of God.

  • Col 2:23
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    23Which thinges haue in deede a shewe of wisdome, in voluntarie religion and humblenesse of minde, and in not sparing the body, which are thinges of no valewe, sith they perteine to the filling of the flesh.

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    21Try all things, & keepe that which is good.

  • Eph 4:22
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    22That is, that yee cast off, concerning the conuersation in time past, that olde man, which is corrupt through the deceiueable lustes,

  • 2 Tim 3:14
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    14But continue thou in the thinges which thou hast learned, and which are committed vnto thee, knowing of who thou hast learned them: