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1 Timothy 3:14 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 14. 14These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:
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Role in This Section
This verse records the writer's hope to come soon while preparing written guidance for possible delay.
Read It With
- 1 Timothy 3:14–16
Read 1 Timothy 3:14 with 3:14–16. This verse records the writer's hope to come soon while preparing written guidance for possible delay. The complete unit establishes this movement: The instructions teach conduct in the living God's household, which supports the truth, and a received confession celebrates Christ's manifestation, vindication, witness, proclamation, worldwide faith, and glory.
Why It Needs Context
Read this line with 1 Timothy 3:14–16. The surrounding verses supply the complete movement summarized here: The instructions teach conduct in the living God's household, which supports the truth, and a received confession celebrates Christ's manifestation, vindication, witness, proclamation, worldwide faith, and glory.
Read 1 Timothy 3:14–16 together
Why these verses belong together: The writing purpose, household conduct, support of truth, and Christ-centered confession explain the letter's community horizon.
Verse 14. 14 These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:
Verse 15. 15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Verse 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.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 1 Timothy 3:14–16 — God's Household Supports Truth and Confesses ChristSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: 1 Timothy 3:14–16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording, clause relationships, morphology targets, and base text for original-language discussion.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT repository, data/sblgnt/text/1Tim.txt, 3:14–16
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