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1 Timothy 4:5 KJV
1 Timothy · chapter 4 · verse 5
For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.1 Timothy 4:5 · King James Version
1 Timothy 4:5 in context
3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
5For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
6If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
7But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- sanctifiedhagiazōto render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things…G37 →
- wordlogosof speech, a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea, what someone…G3056 →
- Godtheosa god or goddess, a general name of deities or divinities, the Godhead, trinity, God the…G2316 →
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We have here a prophecy of the apostasy of the latter times, which he had spoken of as a thing expected and taken for granted among Christians, 2 Th. 2. I. In the close of the foregoing chapter, we had the mystery of godliness summed up;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5