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1 Timothy 4:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
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Role in This Section
This verse marks the godliness promise as a faithful saying worthy of full acceptance.
Read It With
- 1 Timothy 4:6–10
Read 1 Timothy 4:9 with 4:6–10. This verse marks the godliness promise as a faithful saying worthy of full acceptance. The complete unit establishes this movement: Timothy becomes a good servant by nourishing others and himself in faithful teaching, rejecting profane myths, training in godliness, and laboring in hope in the living God, Savior of all and especially believers.
Why It Needs Context
Read this line with 1 Timothy 4:6–10. The surrounding verses supply the complete movement summarized here: Timothy becomes a good servant by nourishing others and himself in faithful teaching, rejecting profane myths, training in godliness, and laboring in hope in the living God, Savior of all and especially believers.
Read 1 Timothy 4:6–10 together
Why these verses belong together: Nourishment, myth refusal, bodily and godly training, faithful saying, labor, and hope in the living God belong together.
Verse 6. 6 If 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.
Verse 7. 7 But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
Verse 8. 8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Verse 9. 9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
Verse 10. 10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 1 Timothy 4:6–10 — Train in Godliness with Hope in the Living GodSources 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 4:6–10, 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, 4:6–10
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