1 Timothy 4:8

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Training your body helps you in some ways. But devotion to God helps you in every way. It brings you blessings in this life and in the future life too.

Cross References

Matthew 6:33

What you should want most is God’s kingdom and doing what he wants you to do. Then he will give you all these other things you need.

1 Timothy 6:6

Devotion to God is, in fact, a way for people to be very rich, but only if it makes them satisfied with what they have.

Proverbs 22:4

Respect the Lord and be humble. Then you will have wealth, honor, and true life.

Proverbs 19:23

Respect the Lord and you will have a good life, one that is satisfying and free from trouble.

1 John 2:25

And this is what the Son promised us—eternal life.

Mark 10:30

will get a hundred times more than they left. Here in this world they will get more homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and farms. And with these things they will have persecutions. But in the world that is coming they will also get the reward of eternal life.

Psalm 37:29

Good people will get the land God promised and will live on it forever.

Psalm 37:11

Humble people will get the land God promised, and they will enjoy peace.

Hebrews 13:9

Don’t let all kinds of strange teachings lead you into the wrong way. Depend only on God’s grace for spiritual strength, not on rules about foods. Obeying those rules doesn’t help anyone.

Isaiah 3:10

Tell the good people who do what is right that good things will happen to them. They will receive a reward for what they do.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

A sinner might do a hundred evil things and still live a long time. But I know that it is still better to obey and respect God.

Psalm 145:19

He listens to his followers and does what they want. He answers their prayers and saves them.

Psalm 84:11

The Lord God is our protector and glorious king. He blesses us with kindness and honor. The Lord freely gives every good thing to those who do what is right.

Revelation 3:21

“I will let everyone who wins the victory sit with me on my throne. It was the same with me. I won the victory and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Titus 3:8

This is a true statement. And I want you to be sure that the people understand these things. Then those who believe in God will be careful to use their lives for doing good. These things are good and will help everyone.

Job 22:2

“Does God need our help? Even the wisest of us is not really useful to him.

1 Samuel 15:22

But Samuel answered, “Which pleases the Lord more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obeying his commands? It is better to obey the Lord than to offer sacrifices to him. It is better to listen to him than to offer the fat from rams.

Revelation 3:12

Those who win the victory will be pillars in the temple of my God. I will make that happen for them. They will never again have to leave God’s temple. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God. That city is the new Jerusalem. It is coming down out of heaven from my God. I will also write my new name on them.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But food will not bring us closer to God. Refusing to eat does not make us less pleasing to God, and eating does not make us closer to him.

Jeremiah 6:20

“Why do you bring me incense from the country of Sheba? Why do you bring me sweet-smelling cane from a faraway country? Your burnt offerings don’t make me happy. Your sacrifices don’t please me.”

Isaiah 33:16

They will live safely in high places. They will be protected in high rock fortresses. They will always have food and water.

Psalm 37:9

The wicked will be destroyed, but those who call to the Lord for help will get the land he promised.

Romans 8:28

We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him. These are the people God chose, because that was his plan.

1 Corinthians 3:22

Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, and the future—all these are yours.

Matthew 19:29

Everyone who has left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or farms to follow me will get much more than they left. And they will have eternal life.

Job 36:11

If they serve and obey him, he will make them successful and they will live a happy life.

Matthew 12:32

You can even speak against the Son of Man and be forgiven. But anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven—not now or in the future.

1 Timothy 4:7

People tell silly stories that don’t agree with God’s truth. Don’t follow what these stories teach. But teach yourself to be devoted to God.

1 Timothy 6:3

Some people will teach what is false and will not agree with the true teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ. They will not accept the teaching that produces a life of devotion to God.

1 Timothy 6:5

They are always making trouble, because they are people whose thinking has been confused. They have lost their understanding of the truth. They think that devotion to God is a way to get rich.

2 Timothy 3:5

They will go on pretending to be devoted to God, but they will refuse to let that “devotion” change the way they live. Stay away from these people!

Luke 5:38

You always put new wine into new wineskins.