This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance.
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
This is a faithful saying,.... A true one, and to be believed, that godliness has such promises annexed to it; see Pe1 3:10. and worthy of all acceptation; by all godly persons, to encourage them to the exercise of godliness.