1 Timothy 1:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

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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Referenced Verses

1 Tim 4:7 : 7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
Titus 3:9 : 9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Titus 1:14 : 14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
2 Pet 1:16 : 16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2 Tim 4:4 : 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
2 Tim 2:14 : 14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
2 Tim 2:16-18 : 16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. 17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; 18 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 teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
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, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
2 Tim 2:22 : 22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, 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: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Heb 13:9 : 9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
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 acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2 Cor 7:9-9 : 9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Eph 4:12-16 : 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: 16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

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