1 Timothy 4:7

A Conservative Version

But reject the profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself to piety.

Cross References

1 Timothy 1:4

nor to heed myths and endless genealogies, which cause controversies rather than stewardship of God in faith.

2 Timothy 2:16

But shun profane babblings, for they will advance to greater impiety,

Titus 2:12

disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish questionings, and genealogies, and contentions, and legal fightings, for they are useless and vain.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for mature men, those having their sensibilities trained through practice for the discernment of both good and evil.

2 Timothy 2:23

But shun foolish and uneducated questions, knowing that they breed quarrels.

2 Timothy 4:4

and will indeed turn the ear away from the truth, and will be turned aside to myths.

1 Timothy 6:11

But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, mildness.

Acts 24:16

And in this I fashion myself, having a conscience always nonstumbling before God and men.

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, keep the entrustment, avoiding the profane babblings and objections of the falsely-called knowledge,

Titus 1:14

not giving heed to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

2 Timothy 3:12

And also all those who want to live devoutly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

1 Timothy 3:16

And without controversy great is the mystery of piety. God was manifested in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by heavenly agents, proclaimed among nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory.

1 Timothy 2:10

but (which is fitting for women professing godliness) through good works.

1 Timothy 1:9

knowing this, that law is not laid down for righteous men, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the irreverent and sinful, for the impious and profane, for father killers and mother killers, for man killers,

1 Timothy 4:8

For bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is coming.

1 Timothy 6:3

If any man teaches something different, and does not associate with wholesome words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to piety,

1 Timothy 6:5

constant frictions of men corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing piety to be a means of gain. Withdraw from such.

2 Timothy 3:5

having a form of piety, but repudiating the power of it. Now turn away from these men,