1 Timothy 4:8

New Century Version

Training your body helps you in some ways, but serving God helps you in every way by bringing you blessings in this life and in the future life, too.

Cross References

Job 22:2

“Can anyone be of real use to God? Can even a wise person do him good?

Job 36:11

If they obey and serve him, the rest of their lives will be successful, and the rest of their years will be happy.

Psalm 145:19

He gives those who respect him what they want. He listens when they cry, and he saves them.

Psalm 37:11

People who are not proud will inherit the land and will enjoy complete peace.

Psalm 37:29

Good people will inherit the land and will live in it forever.

Psalm 37:9

Evil people will be sent away, but those who trust the Lord will inherit the land.

Psalm 84:11

The Lord God is like a sun and shield; the Lord gives us kindness and honor. He does not hold back anything good from those whose lives are innocent.

Proverbs 19:23

Those who respect the Lord will live and be satisfied, unbothered by trouble.

Proverbs 22:4

Respecting the Lord and not being proud will bring you wealth, honor, and life.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Though a sinner might do a hundred evil things and might live a long time, I know it will be better for those who honor God.

Isaiah 3:10

Tell those who do what is right that things will go well for them, because they will receive a reward for what they do.

Isaiah 33:16

this is the kind of person who will be safe. He will be protected as he would be in a high, walled city. He will always have bread, and he will not run out of water.

Jeremiah 6:20

Why do you bring me offerings of incense from the land of Sheba? Why do you bring me sweet-smelling cane from a faraway land? Your burnt offerings will not be accepted; your sacrifices do not please me.”

Matthew 12:32

Anyone who speaks against the Son of Man can be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, now or in the future.

Matthew 19:29

And all those who have left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or farms to follow me will get much more than they left, and they will have life forever.

Matthew 6:33

Seek first God’s kingdom and what God wants. Then all your other needs will be met as well.

Mark 10:30

will get more than they left. Here in this world they will have a hundred times more homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields. And with those things, they will also suffer for their belief. But in this age they will have life forever.

Luke 5:38

New wine must be put into new leather bags.

Romans 8:28

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

1 Corinthians 3:22

Paul, Apollos, and Peter; the world, life, death, the present, and the future—all these belong to you.

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 better in God’s sight.

1 Timothy 4:7

But do not follow foolish stories that disagree with God’s truth, but train yourself to serve God.

1 Timothy 6:3

Anyone who has a different teaching does not agree with the true teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that shows the true way to serve God.

1 Timothy 6:5

and constant quarrels from those who have evil minds and have lost the truth. They think that serving God is a way to get rich.

1 Timothy 6:6

Serving God does make us very rich, if we are satisfied with what we have.

2 Timothy 3:5

and will act as if they serve God but will not have his power. Stay away from those people.

Titus 3:8

This teaching is true, and I want you to be sure 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.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you into the wrong way. Your hearts should be strengthened by God’s grace, not by obeying rules about foods, which do not help those who obey them.

1 John 2:25

And this is what the Son promised to us—life forever.

Revelation 3:12

I will make those who win the victory pillars in the temple of my God, and they will never have to leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, that comes down out of heaven from my God. I will also write on them my new name.

Revelation 3:21

“Those who win the victory will sit with me on my throne in the same way that I won the victory and sat down with my Father on his throne.

1 Samuel 15:22

But Samuel answered, “What pleases the Lord more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obedience to his voice? It is better to obey than to sacrifice. It is better to listen to God than to offer the fat of sheep.