For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
We labor and suffer reproach with our hope fixed on the living God, the life-giving God. He is Savior of all men potentially; of believers alone effectually. Even now, believers receive a hundredfold in this life with persecutions, much more the life to come.
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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