Devine Scripture

1 Timothy 1:4

1 Timothy chapter 1 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; so do I now.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; so do I now.

Context

v.3As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

v.4This passage

v.5But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Timothy 2:16

    But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

  • Ephesians 4:12

    for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

  • 1 Timothy 4:7

    but refuse profane and old wives’ fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness:

  • 1 Timothy 6:3

    If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

  • 2 Corinthians 7:9

    I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.

  • 2 Peter 1:16

    For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.