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Updated Bible Version

1 Timothy 4:11

These things command and teach.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Minister, Christian;   Thompson Chain Reference - Instruction;   Leaders;   Ministers;   Religious;   Teacher, Divine;   Teaching;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Preaching;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Timothy, the First Epistle to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Church Government;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Timothy;   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Command and teach these things.
King James Version (1611)
These things command & teach.
King James Version
These things command and teach.
English Standard Version
Command and teach these things.
New American Standard Bible
Prescribe and teach these things.
New Century Version
Command and teach these things.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Prescribe and teach these things.
Legacy Standard Bible
Command and teach these things.
Berean Standard Bible
Command and teach these things.
Contemporary English Version
Teach these things and tell everyone to do what you say.
Complete Jewish Bible
Command these things and teach them.
Darby Translation
Enjoin and teach these things.
Easy-to-Read Version
Command and teach these things.
Geneva Bible (1587)
These things warne and teache.
George Lamsa Translation
These things command and teach.
Good News Translation
Give them these instructions and these teachings.
Lexham English Bible
Command these things and teach them.
Literal Translation
Enjoin and teach these things.
Amplified Bible
Keep commanding and teaching these things.
American Standard Version
These things command and teach.
Bible in Basic English
Let these be your orders and your teaching.
Hebrew Names Version
Command and teach these things.
International Standard Version
These are the things you must insist on and teach.1 Timothy 6:2;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
These teach and command.
Murdock Translation
These things teach thou, and inculcate.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
These thynges commaunde & teache.
English Revised Version
These things command and teach.
World English Bible
Command and teach these things.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
These things command and teach.
Weymouth's New Testament
Command this and teach this.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Comaunde thou this thing, and teche.
Webster's Bible Translation
These things command and teach.
New English Translation
Command and teach these things.
New King James Version
These things command and teach.
New Living Translation
Teach these things and insist that everyone learn them.
New Life Bible
Tell people that this is what they must do.
New Revised Standard
These are the things you must insist on and teach.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Be giving these things in charge, and be teaching: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
These things command and teach:
Revised Standard Version
Command and teach these things.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Suche thynges commaunde and teache.
Young's Literal Translation
Charge these things, and teach;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Soch thinges commaunde thou and teach.
Mace New Testament (1729)
These things recommend and teach.
THE MESSAGE
Get the word out. Teach all these things. And don't let anyone put you down because you're young. Teach believers with your life: by word, by demeanor, by love, by faith, by integrity. Stay at your post reading Scripture, giving counsel, teaching. And that special gift of ministry you were given when the leaders of the church laid hands on you and prayed—keep that dusted off and in use.
Simplified Cowboy Version
These are the things I want you to teach and tell people.

Contextual Overview

6 If you put the brothers in mind of these things, you shall be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed [until now]: 7 but refuse profane and old wives' fables. And exercise yourself to godliness: 8 for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. 9 Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptance. 10 For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe. 11 These things command and teach. 12 Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity. 13 Until I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching. 14 Don't neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. 15 Be diligent in these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your progress may be manifest to all.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Timothy 6:2, 2 Timothy 4:2, Titus 2:15, Titus 3:8

Reciprocal: Matthew 5:19 - do 1 Timothy 1:3 - charge 1 Timothy 5:7 - General 1 Timothy 6:14 - keep

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
And Yahweh God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life:
Genesis 4:14
Look, you have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from your face I shall be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whoever finds me will slay me.
Genesis 4:15
And Yahweh said to him, Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest anyone finding him should smite him.
Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the presence of Yahweh, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Genesis 4:19
And Lamech took to him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Genesis 4:20
And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents and [have] cattle.
Genesis 4:21
And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe.
Genesis 4:26
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he named him Enosh. Then it was begun to call on the name of Yahweh.
Job 16:18
O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no [resting]-place.
Isaiah 26:21
For, look, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

These things command and teach. What are to be commanded, command, and what are to be taught, teach; command to refuse and reject all profane and fabulous doctrines, and exhort to the exercise of true godliness, and teach the profitableness of that, and declare the promises made unto it, and assert the truth and acceptableness of them; command, order, and encourage believers to labour and suffer reproach for the sake of Christ, and his Gospel, in hope of enjoying the said promises, and teach them to trust in the God of their lives, and the Saviour of all men; and whereas to this authoritative way of teaching, Timothy's youth might be objected by himself, and others; it follows,

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These things command and teach - As important doctrines, and as embracing the sum of the Christian system. It follows from this, that a minister of the gospel is solemnly bound to teach that there is a sense in which God is the Saviour of all people. He is just as much bound to teach this, as he is that only those will be saved who believe. It is a glorious truth - and it is a thing for which a man should unceasingly give thanks to God that he may go and proclaim that He has provided salvation for all, and is willing that all should come and live.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 11. These things command and teach. — Let it be the sum and substance of thy preaching, that true religion is profitable for both worlds; that vice destroys both body and soul; that Christ tasted death for every man; and that he saves to the uttermost all them that believe in his name.


 
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