1 Timothy 4:9
This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance.
BSB
ASV
Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation.
KJV
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
This is a faithful saying,.... A true one, and to be believed, that godliness has such promises annexed to it; see 1Pe 3:10. and worthy of all acceptation; by all godly persons, to encourage them to the exercise of godliness.
1834–1892
YOUR attention will be the more readily given to this passage, because Paul declares it to be a "faithful"—a most true and certain saying—and "worthy of all acceptation," that is to say, worthy to be received and practiced by us all. Paul has four of these faithful sayings. The first, occurs in 1 Timothy 1:15, "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." The second is our text.
This verse (Greek), "faithful is the saying, " &c. confirms the assertion as to the "promise" attached to "godliness," 1Ti 4:8, and forms a prefatory introduction to 1Ti 4:10, which is joined to 1Ti 4:9 by "For." So 2Ti 2:11.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
1 Timothy 1:15This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.
leads to
On hearing this, Jesus told them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—