Pay close attention to your life and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by so doing you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
The Spirit plainly warns that false teachers will come, placing all holiness in outward ceremonies while they shadow the true spiritual worship of God. Men love hypocrisy by nature, and Satan finds it easy work to persuade them that God is honored by ceremonies rather than by the heart.
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Commenting on 1 Timothy 4:1-16
Good ministers stir up remembrance of what believers already know; we are slow to learn and apt to forget the things of God. While you teach others, you teach yourself, and this is how ministers grow in faith alongside their brethren.
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Commenting on 1 Timothy 4:6-16
Verse 16. Take heed unto thyself. This may be understood as relating to everything of a personal nature that would qualify him for his work. It may be applied to personal piety; to health; to manners; to habits of living; to temper; to the ruling purposes; to the intercourse with others.