1 Timothy 4:8 Cross References - Mace

⁸ exercise yourself in piety: for those exercises which relate only to the body are of little consequence, but piety is of absolute use, having the promises both of the present life, and of the life that is to come.

³ Blessed are they, that are of an humble spirit, for of such is the kingdom of the Messias. ⁴ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. ⁵ Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. ⁶ Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be satisfied. ⁷ Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. ⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. ⁹ Blessed are the pacific: for they shall be the children of God. ¹⁰ Blessed are they who are persecuted upon the account of righteousness: for their's is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ Blessed shall you be when men shall revile and persecute you, and falsely charge you with all manner of evil for your attachment to me. ¹² Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great will be your reward in heaven: for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

³³ but first seek the kingdom of God, and that righteousness which leads to it, and all these things shall be superadded. be not

²⁹ and every one that abandons his family, his brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my sake, shall receive in that age an hundred times the value, and shall inherit hereafter everlasting life.

¹⁹ you know the commandments, "do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, defraud not, honour your father, and mother." ²⁰ to which he answered, master, said he, all these precepts have I observed from my youth.

³⁰ but shall receive at present in this age, what will be a hundred times better to him, than houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, tho' with persecution: and in the age to come eternal life.

³¹ therefore do you rather seek the kingdom of God, and then all your necessities will be fully supply'd. ³² fear not, ye little flock, for it is your father's good pleasure to grant you the kingdom.

²⁸ We know too, that all things co-operate for the good of those who love God, who, pursuant to his purpose, has now called them:

²² whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come;

⁸ meat does not recommend us to God: if we eat, we are not the better men; if we don't eat, we are not the worse.

²¹ "don't eat this, don't taste that, nor touch it:" ²² which yet were all made to be consumed for our use, notwithstanding the injunctions and doctrines of men: ²³ by which indeed they make a pretence to wisdom, by a worship of their own devising, by an air of humility, and self-denial, and a disregard to the gratifications of sense.

⁶ Religion indeed with contentment leads to great gain.

⁸ This is a secure rule, and what I would have you constantly maintain, that they who have believed in God, should take care to be examples of virtue, for that is commendable and useful to mankind.

⁹ This type subsists to the present time, both gifts and sacrifices being still offered, which cannot purify the mind of him that officiates ¹⁰ only in matters relating to meats and drinks, and divers baptisms, meer external rites which were to subsist only till the time of reformation.

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.

³ It is thus his divine power has given us every thing conducive to life and piety, by making us acquainted with him, who has called us by his illustrious power; ⁴ by which we have receiv'd the most inestimable promises, that thereby you might become partakers of the divine perfections, after having escap'd from the corruption of a sensual world.

²⁵ and this is the reward that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

¹² him that overcomes, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out no more: I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which descends from heaven from my God: even my new name will I write.

²¹ to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my father in his throne.