1 Timothy 4:7

James Moffatt - New Testament

Shut your mind against these profane, drivelling myths; train for the religious life.

Cross References

1 Timothy 1:4

and studying myths and interminable genealogies; such studies bear upon speculations rather than on the divine order which belongs to faith.

2 Timothy 2:16

Avoid all that profane jargon, for it leads people still further into irreligion,

Titus 2:12

and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish controversy, and let genealogies and dissensions and strife over the Law alone, for these are fruitless and futile.

Hebrews 5:14

Whereas solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by exercise to distinguish good and evil.)

2 Timothy 2:23

Shut your mind against foolish, popular controversy; be sure that only breeds strife.

2 Timothy 4:4

they will give up listening to the Truth and turn to myths.

1 Timothy 6:11

Shun that, O man of God, aim at integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, and suavity;

Acts 24:16

Hence I too endeavour to have a clear conscience before God and men all the time.

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timotheus, keep the securities of the faith intact: avoid the profane jargon and contradictions of what is falsely called 'Knowledge.'

Titus 1:14

instead of studying Jewish myths and rules laid down by men who have discarded the Truth.

2 Timothy 3:12

Yes, and all who want to live the religious life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

1 Timothy 3:16

And who does not admit how profound is the divine truth of our religion? — it is He who was "manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by the angels, preached among the nations, believed on throughout the world, taken up to glory."

1 Timothy 2:10

but with good deeds (as befits women who make a religious profession).

1 Timothy 1:9

he must keep in mind that no law is ever made for honest people but for the lawless and the insubordinate, for the impious and the sinful, for the irreverent and the profane, for parricides and matricides, murderers,

1 Timothy 4:8

The training of the body is of small service, but religion is of service in all directions; it contains the promise of life both for the present and for the future.

1 Timothy 6:3

Anyone who teaches novelties and refuses to fall in with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the doctrine that tallies with piety,

1 Timothy 6:5

and constant friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the Truth. They imagine religion is a paying concern.

2 Timothy 3:5

for though they keep up a form of religion, they will have nothing to do with it as a force. Avoid all such.