1 Timothy 4:8 - Easy To Read Version

⁸ Training (teaching) your body helps you in some ways. But serving God helps you in every way. Serving God brings you blessings in this life and in the future life too.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ For physical training is of some value (useful for a little), but godliness (spiritual training) is useful and of value in everything and in every way, for it holds promise for the present life and also for the life which is to come.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.

Common English Bible

⁸ While physical training has some value, training in holy living is useful for everything. It has promise for this life now and the life to come.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For the exercise of the body is somewhat useful. But piety is useful in all things, holding the promise of life, in the present and in the future.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

1 Timothy 4:8 Tagairtí Cros

Job 22:2

“Does God need our help? No!\par Even a very wise person\par isn’t really useful to God.\par

Job 36:11

If those people listen to God, and obey him,\par then God will make them successful\par and they will live a happy life.\par

Psalm 145:19

The Lord does what his followers want.\par The Lord listens to his followers.\par He answers their prayers and saves them.\par

Psalm 37:11

Humble people\par will get the land \{God promised\}.\par And they will enjoy peace.\par

Psalm 37:29

Good people will get the land \{God promised\}.\par They will live on it forever.\par

Psalm 37:9

Why? Because evil people will be destroyed.\par But people that call to the Lord for help\par will get the land \{God promised\}.\par

Psalm 84:11

The Lord is our protector and glorious king. {\cf2\super [491]} \par God blesses us with kindness and glory.\par The Lord gives every good thing\par to people who follow and obey him.\par

Proverbs 19:23

A person who respects the Lord has a good life. That person is satisfied with his life and doesn’t have to worry about troubles.

Proverbs 22:4

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

Ecclesiastes 8:12

A sinner might do a hundred evil things. And he might have a long life. But I know that it is still better to obey and respect God.

Isaiah 3:10

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

Isaiah 33:16

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

Jeremiah 6:20

\{The Lord says,\}\par “Why do you bring me incense {\cf2\super [43]} \par from the country of Sheba? {\cf2\super [44]} \par Why do you bring me sweet-smelling cane from a far away country?\par Your burnt offerings don’t make\par me happy.\par Your sacrifices don’t please me.”\par

Matthew 12:32

Any person that says things against the Son of Man {\cf2\super [175]} can be forgiven. But any person that says things against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. That person will not be forgiven now or in the future.

Matthew 19:29

And every person that has left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or farms to follow me will get much more than he left. And that person will have life forever.

Matthew 6:33

The thing you should want most is God’s kingdom and doing the good things God wants you to do. Then all these other things you need will be given to you.

Mark 10:30

will get a hundred times more than he left. Here in this world that person will get more homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and farms. And with those things, that person will have persecutions. {\cf2\super [130]} But he will also have a reward in the world that is coming. That reward is life forever.

Luke 5:38

People always put new wine into new wine bags.

Romans 8:28

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

1 Corinthians 3:22

Paul, Apollos, and Cephas (Peter); the world, life, death, the present, and the future—all these things are yours.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But food will not make us closer to God. Refusing to eat does not make us less \{pleasing to God\}. And eating does not make us better.

1 Timothy 4:7

People tell silly stories that don’t agree with God’s truth. Don’t follow \{what\} those stories \{teach\}. But teach yourself to truly serve God.

1 Timothy 6:3

Some people will teach things that are false. Those people will not agree with the true teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ. And they will not accept the teaching that agrees with the true way to serve 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 serving God is a way to get rich.

1 Timothy 6:6

It is true that serving God makes a person very rich, if that person is satisfied with what he has.

2 Timothy 3:5

Those people will continue to act like they serve God. But the way they live shows that they don’t really serve God. Timothy, stay away from those people.

Titus 3:8

There is something that you should do. And because of the authority I have in Christ, I feel free to command you to do it.

Hebrews 13:9

Don’t let all kinds of strange teachings lead you into the wrong way. Your hearts should be strengthened by God’s grace (kindness), not by obeying rules about foods. Obeying those rules doesn’t help people.

1 John 2:25

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

Revelation 3:12

The person that wins the victory will be a pillar {\cf2\super [28]} in the temple {\cf2\super [29]} of my God. I will do that for the person that wins the victory. That person will never again have to leave God’s temple. I will write the name of my God on that person. And I will write the name of the city of my God on that person. That city is the new Jerusalem. {\cf2\super [30]} That city is coming down out of heaven from my God. I will also write my new name on that person.

Revelation 3:21

“I will let every person that 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.

1 Samuel 15:22

But Samuel answered, “Which pleases the Lord more: burnt offerings and sacrifices [138] or obeying the Lord’s command? It is better to obey God than to offer sacrifices to him. It is better to listen to God than to offer the fat from rams.