1 Timothy 4:16 Cross References - Mace

¹⁶ take care how you behave, and what you teach. persevere in these duties: for by the practice of them, you will save both yourself, and those who hear you.

⁹ these are the beginning of sorrows. then look to your selves: for they will deliver you up to the tribunals, and scourge you in the synagogues: you will be brought before governours, and princes upon my account, to be my witnesses against them.

³⁴ set a guard upon yourselves, that ye be not stupified by surfeiting and drunkenness, or by the disquietudes of this life, and so that day come upon you with a surprize.

⁴ whilst we shall continue our applications to prayer, and to preaching.

²⁶ I therefore declare to you at this present time, that I am not responsible for the ruin of any: ²⁷ for I have acquainted you with the whole dispensation of God without reserve. ²⁸ be therefore upon your guard to secure your selves, and the whole flock over which the holy spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

²² but by the divine favour I am still preserv'd alive, testifying to the small and to the great nothing but what Moses and the prophets have predicted should happen: "that Christ should suffer:

⁷ who by patient continuance in well doing, seek for glory, honour, and immortality;

¹⁰ for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. ¹¹ for the scripture saith, "whosoever believeth on him, shall not be ashamed." ¹² In reality there is no difference between the Jew and the Gentile: they have all the same Lord, who is bountiful to all that call upon him. ¹³ "whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved." ¹⁴ But how, say you, shall they call on him on whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?

¹⁴ if I could by any means excite the emulation of my dear countrymen, in order to save some.

¹⁷ Now I beseech you, brethren, mark those who cause divisions and revolts against the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them.

¹⁰ according to the free gift of God bestowed upon me, I, as a skilful architect, have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. but let every man take heed how he builds thereupon. ¹¹ for no one can lay any other foundation, than what is laid, which is, that Jesus is the Messias.

²² to the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that I might save all sorts of men.

²⁷ but I mortify my body, and bring it into subjection: lest after having been a herald to others, I my self should be thrown out.

¹⁴ that we should be no longer children, fluctuating, and carried about with every empty doctrine, by men vers'd in sleight and the crafty arts of deceit:

¹⁷ that you read the epistle from Laodicea. give Archippus this instruction from me, take care to discharge the function, you

¹⁶ who by obstructing our endeavours to save the Gentiles, continue to fill up the measure of their enormities; for which consummate vengeance is falling upon them.

¹⁹ for what can be our hope, or joy, what can crown our pretensions, unless it be you, when we shall appear before the Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? ²⁰ for ye are our glory and our joy.

³ At my departure from Macedonia, I advised you to stay at Ephesus in order to charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,

⁶ If you represent these things to the brethren, you will appear to be a true minister of Jesus Christ, brought up in the institutions of faith, and the true doctrine to which you were attach'd.

¹⁰ I therefore bear with every thing for the sake of the converts, that they may obtain that salvation, which Jesus Christ has procur'd us, even eternal glory.

¹⁴ But be you attach'd to the doctrine you have learnt, with which you are intrusted, considering by whom you have been instructed:

² to preach the word with assiduity upon all occasions: reprove, censure, exhort, with the most tender persuasions.

⁹ attach'd to the truth, that has been taught him, that he may be able to teach others sound doctrine, and to convince those who oppose it.

⁷ In all things show yourself a pattern of virtue: in teaching shewing uncorruptness,

¹⁵ these things remonstrate: recommend and enforce with all your authority: guard yourself against all contempt.

¹⁹ I Paul give it under my own hand, I will repay it; not to say, that you owe your very self to me.

¹⁵ take care not to deprive yourselves of the divine favour: and that no poisonous root spring up, and spread a general infection among you.

⁹ for the mind is better improv'd by the gospel-dispensation, than by the distinctions about meats, in which some have been so uselesly vers'd.

²⁰ that the retrieving of a sinner from his erroneous habits, is saving a soul from ruin, and cancels a multitude of sins.

⁸ be upon your guard, that we may not lose the fruit of our labours, but that we may receive our full reward. ⁹ no renegado that deserts the doctrine of Christ, has any interest in the deity: he that adheres to the doctrine of Christ, has an interest both in the father, and in the son.