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1 Timothy 6:4 KJV
1 Timothy · chapter 6 · verse 4
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,1 Timothy 6:4 · King James Version
1 Timothy 6:4 in context
2And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
3If 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;
4He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
5Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
6But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- questionszētēsisa seeking, enquiry, a questioning, debate, a subject of questioning or debate, matter of…G2214 →
- knowingepistamaito put one s attention on, fix one s thoughts on, to turn one s self or one s mind to…G1987 →
- nothingmēdeisnobody, no one, nothingG3367 →
- whereofekout of, from, by, away fromG1537 →
- whereofhoswho, which, what, thatG3739 →
- comethginomaito becomeG1096 →
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I. Here is the duty of servants. The apostle had spoken before of church-relations, here of our family-relations. Servants are here said to be under the yoke, which denotes both subjection and labour; they are yoked to work, not to be idle. If Christianity finds servants under the yoke, it continues them under it;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5