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1 Timothy 4:13
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Until I come, give your attention to public reading, exhortation, and teaching.
Till I come, giue attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.
Until I come, give your attention to the public reading, to exhortation, and teaching.
Until I come, continue to read the Scriptures to the people, strengthen them, and teach them.
Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and teaching.
Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and teaching.
Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, and to teaching.
Until I arrive, be sure to keep on reading the Scriptures in worship, and don't stop preaching and teaching.
Until I come, pay attention to the public reading of the Scriptures.
Till I come, give thyself to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.
Continue to read the Scriptures to the people, encourage them, and teach them. Do this until I come.
Till I come, giue attendance to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine.
And until I come, strive to study, and continue in prayer and teaching.
Until I come, give your time and effort to the public reading of the Scriptures and to preaching and teaching.
Until I come, pay attention to the public reading, to exhortation, to teaching.
Until I come, attend to reading, to exhortation to the doctrine.
Until I come, devote yourself to public reading [of Scripture], to preaching and to teaching [the sound doctrine of God's word].
Till I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.
Till I come, give attention to the reading of the holy Writings, to comforting the saints, and to teaching.
Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
Until I arrive, concentrate on the public reading of Scripture,on the reading">[fn] on exhorting, and on teaching.
Till I come be diligent in reading, and in prayer, and in teaching.
Until I come, be diligent in reading, and in prayer, and in teaching.
Tyll I come geue attendaunce to readyng, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Till I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.
Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
Till I come, give thyself to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.
Till I come, bestow your attention on reading, exhortation and teaching.
Tyl Y come, take tent to redyng, to exortacioun and teching.
Until I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Until I come, give attention to the public reading of scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.
Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Until I get there, focus on reading the Scriptures to the church, encouraging the believers, and teaching them.
Until I arrive, give attention to the public reading of scripture, to exhorting, to teaching.
While I am coming, be giving heed - to the reading, to the exhorting, to the teaching:
Till I come, attend unto reading, to exhortation and to doctrine.
Till I come, attend to the public reading of scripture, to preaching, to teaching.
Till I come geve attendaunce to redynge to exhortacion and to doctryne.
till I come, give heed to the reading, to the exhortation, to the teaching;
Geue attendaunce to readynge, to exhortacion, to doctryne, vntyll I come.
while I am absent apply yourself to reading, to exhortation, and instruction.
Until I see you again, tell people what the Good Book says. Don't ever shy away from preaching or teaching.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I come: 1 Timothy 3:14, 1 Timothy 3:15
to reading: Deuteronomy 17:19, Joshua 1:8, Psalms 1:2, Psalms 1:3, Psalms 119:97-104, Proverbs 2:4, Proverbs 2:5, Matthew 13:51, Matthew 13:52, John 5:39, Acts 6:4, Acts 17:11, 2 Timothy 2:15-17
to exhortation: Romans 12:8, 1 Corinthians 14:3, Titus 2:15
to doctrine: 1 Timothy 4:6, 1 Timothy 4:16, 1 Corinthians 14:6, 1 Corinthians 14:26, 2 Timothy 4:2
Reciprocal: Numbers 1:53 - shall pitch Daniel 9:2 - understood 2 Timothy 3:10 - my
Cross-References
He does not believe that he will be taken away from darkness, and the sword is meant for him.
Men were burned with the heat of this fire and they called God bad names even when He had the power over these kinds of trouble. They were not sorry for their sins and did not turn from them and honor Him.
They called the God of heaven bad names because of their pain and their sores. They were not sorry for what they had done.
Large pieces of hail fell from heaven on men. These pieces were about as heavy as an older child. But men called God bad names because of so much trouble from the hail.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Till I come,.... To Ephesus; where the apostle hoped to be shortly, but was prevented; he afterwards came to Miletus, and sent for the elders of Ephesus thither, when he took his final leave of them. He mentions this circumstance, not as if Timothy was to attend to the following things no longer, but to quicken him to an attendance to them from the consideration of his being shortly with him.
Give attendance to reading; that is, of the Scriptures, which the Jews call ×קר×, "reading". l
"Says R. Tanchum Bar Chanilai, for ever let a man divide his years or life into three parts; one third (let him spend) in the Mikra, (the Scriptures, and the reading of them,) another third in the Misna, and the other third in the Talmud.''
And this is to be understood, not of the reading of the Scriptures in public, for the advantage of others, a custom which obtained in the Jewish synagogues; see Acts 13:15 but in private, for his own use and service, that he might be more perfect, and more thoroughly furnished to the work and office to which he was called; for the Scriptures are the fund of spiritual knowledge, as well as the test and standard of doctrine, out of which all must be fetched, and by which it must be tried; and if Timothy, who had known the Scriptures from a child, had been trained up in them, and was always conversant with them, had need to give diligent attention to the reading of them, then much more others: as also
to exhortation, to doctrine; as he was privately to read the Scriptures, for his own benefit, he was publicly to expound them, or preach from them, to the advantage of others; for these two, exhortation and doctrine, are branches of the ministerial work, which reading furnishes and qualifies for. "Exhortation" intends the stirring up of believers to the exercise of grace, and the discharge of duty; and is a considerable part of the work of the ministry, and on which a minister of Christ should much insist; and it becomes the saints to suffer every word of exhortation from them, and receive it kindly, 2Ti 4:2 Ro 12:8. Heb 13:22. The word signifies also "consolation", and which is another branch of the ministry. Believers are oftentimes disconsolate through the prevalence of corruptions, the power of Satan's temptations, and the hidings of God's face, and need comfort; when the ministers of the Gospel should be Barnabases, sons of consolation, and should speak comfortably to them; for which they are qualified by the God of all comfort, who comforts them in all their tribulations, that they might be capable of speaking good and comfortable words to others. "Doctrine" designs the teaching and instructing of the church in the mysteries of the Gospel; opening and explaining the truths of it; defending them against all opposers, and refuting errors and heresies contrary to them. This is the evangelic Talmud; and these three, "reading", "exhortation", and "doctrine", may answer to the above three things the Jew advises men to divide their time among, the Mikra, Misna, and Talmud: reading answers to the Mikra, and indeed is no other; and exhortation to the Misna, or oral law; and doctrine to the Talmud, and which also that word signifies: but the apostle would have Timothy spend his time in, and give his attention to that which might be truly beneficial to himself, and profitable unto others.
l T. Bab. Avoda Zara, fol. 19. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Till I come; - notes, 1 Timothy 3:14-15.
Give attendance to reading - The word here used may refer either to public or to private reading; see Act 13:15; 2 Corinthians 3:14; compare Esdr. 9:48. The more obvious interpretation here is to refer it to private reading, or to a careful perusal of those books which would qualify him for his public work. The then written portions of the sacred volume - the Old Testament - are doubtless specially intended here, but there is no reason to doubt that there were included also such other books as would be useful, to which Timothy might have access. Even those were then few in number, but Paul evidently meant that Timothy should, as far as practicable, become acquainted with them. The apostle himself, on more than one occasion, showed that he had some acquaintance with the classic writings of Greece; Acts 17:28; Titus 1:12.
To exhortation - see the notes on Romans 12:8.
To doctrine - To teaching - for so the word means; compare notes on Romans 12:7.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 13. Give attendance to reading — Timothy could easily comprehend the apostle's meaning; but at present this is not so easy. What books does the apostle mean? The books of the Old Testament were probably what he intended; these testified of Jesus, and by these he could either convince or confound the Jews. But, whether was the reading of these to be public or private? Probably both. It was customary to read the law and the prophets in the synagogue, and doubtless in the assemblies of the Christians; after which there was generally an exhortation founded upon the subject of the prophecy. Hence the apostle says: Give attendance to reading, to EXHORTATION, to DOCTRINE. Timothy was therefore to be diligent in reading the sacred writings at home, that he might be the better qualified to read and expound them in the public assemblies to the Christians, and to others who came to these public meetings.
As to other books, there were not many at that time that could be of much use to a Christian minister. In those days the great business of the preacher was to bring forward the grand facts of Christianity, to prove these, and to show that all had happened according to the prediction of the prophets; and from these to show the work of God in the heart, and the evidence of that work in a holy life.
At present the truth of God is not only to be proclaimed, but defended; and many customs or manners, and forms of speech, which are to us obsolete, must be explained from the writings of the ancients, and particularly from the works of those who lived about the same times, or nearest to them, and in the same or contiguous countries. This will require the knowledge of those languages in which those works have been composed, the chief of which are Hebrew and Greek, the languages in which the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments have been originally written.
Latin is certainly of the next consequence; a language in which some of the most early comments have been written; and it is worth the trouble of being learned, were it only for the sake of the works of St. Jerome, who translated and wrote a commentary on the whole of the Scriptures; though in many respects it is both erroneous and superficial.
Arabic and Syriac may be added with great advantage: the latter being in effect the language in which Christ and his apostles spoke and preached in Judea; and the former being radically the same with the Hebrew, and preserving many of the roots of that language, the derivatives of which often occur in the Hebrew Bible, but the roots never.
The works of various scholars prove of how much consequence even the writings of heathen authors, chiefly those of Greece and Italy, are to the illustration of the sacred writings. And he who is best acquainted with the sacred records will avail himself of such helps, with gratitude both to God and man. Though so many languages and so much reading are not absolutely necessary to form a minister of the Gospel, (for there are many eminent ministers who have not such advantages,) yet they are helps of the first magnitude to those who have them and know how to use them.
