1 Timothy 1:10
in 1 Timothy 1for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
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ASV
for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
KJV
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
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This verse in 1 Timothy 1
Commentary
12 notes on this verseFor whoremongers - Πορνοις· Adulterers, fornicators, and prostitutes of all sorts. Them that defile themselves with mankind - Αρσενοκοιταις· From αρσην, a male, and κοιτη, a bed; a word too bad to be explained. A sodomite.
This site's exposition
the law is good, if one uses it legitimately
on 1 Timothy 1:8-11
Paul keeps the law as good, if one uses it legitimately, to name sin. Its list of lawbreakers runs in the Decalogue's order. Killers of father or mother stand at the fifth commandment, the sexually immoral and homosexuals at the seventh, slave traders at the eighth.
This site's exposition
slave traders
The list moves on through the commandments about neighbours, and slave traders stand where theft stands. Barnes notes that the word occurs only here in the New Testament and means one who seizes people to sell them.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the righteous but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for sexually immoral persons, for men who …
"For murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liers, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine." For all the things which he had mentioned were the passions of a corrupted soul, and contrary, therefore, to sound doctrine.
The Medieval Church2 voices
Although what had been said was sufficient, nevertheless for the sake of completeness the apostle also added in general: "and for everything." From this it becomes clear that such passions gain access from distorted dogmas, for they are all contrary to sound teaching.
Then he lists the shameful acts: first, those which are according to nature, which he says, for fornicators: fornicators and adulterers God will judge (Heb 13:4); second, those against nature, when he says, for those who defile themselves with mankind: nor the effeminate shall possess …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Manstealers - The worst of all thieves, in comparison of whom, highwaymen and housebreakers are innocent. What then are most traders in negroes, procurers of servants for America, and all who list soldiers by lies, tricks, or enticements?
4 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Some understand this as an institution of a power in the civil magistrate to make laws against such notorious sinners as are specified, and to see those laws put in execution. He shows the glory and grace of the gospel. Paul's epithets are expressive and significant; and frequently every one is a sentence: as here (
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The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Gospel grace is the only true means of sanctification as well as of justification. sound--healthy, spiritually wholesome (1Ti 6:3; 2:2), as opposed to sickly, morbid (as the Greek of "doting" means, 1Ti 6:4), and "canker" (2Ti 2:17).
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
For whoremongers - Lev 19:29; Lev 20:5. For them that defile themselves with mankind - Sodomites. See the evidence that this crime abounded in ancient times, in the notes on Rom 1:27. It was forbidden by the law of Moses, and was punishable with death; Lev 20:13. For menstealers - The word here used - ἀνδρᾶποδιστής andrapodistēs - occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. It properly means one who steals another for the purpose of making him a slave - a kidnapper. This is the common way in which people are made slaves. Some, indeed, are taken in war and sold as slaves, but the mass of those who have been reduced to servitude have become slaves by being kidnapped. Children are stolen from their parents, or wives from their husbands, or husbands from their wives, or parents from their children, or whole families are stolen together. None become slaves voluntarily, and consequently the whole process of making slaves partakes of the nature of theft of the worst kind. What theft is like that of stealing a man’s children, or his wife, or his father or mother? The guilt of manstealing is incurred essentially by those who purchase those who are thus stolen - as the purchaser of a stolen horse, knowing it to be so, participates in the crime. A measure of that criminality also adheres to all who own slaves, and who thus maintain the system - for it is a system known to have been originated by theft. This crime was expressly forbidden by the law of God, and was made punishable with death; Exo 21:16; Deu 24:7. For liars - Lev 6:2-4; Lev 19:11. For perjured persons - Those who swear falsely; Lev 19:12; Lev 6:3; Exo 20:7. And if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine - To sound or correct teaching - for so the word doctrine means. The meaning is, if there is anything else that is opposed to the instruction which the law of God gives.
The words behind it
13 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| πόρνοις, | pornois | for the sexually immoral, | G4205 → | |
| ἀρσενοκοίταις, | arsenokoitais | for homosexuals, | G733 → | |
| ἀνδραποδισταῖς, | andrapodistais | for enslavers, | G405 → | |
| ψεύσταις, | pseustais | for liars, | G5583 → | |
| ἐπιόρκοις, | epiorkois | for perjurers, | G1965 → | |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| εἴ | ei | if | G1487 → | 508 times |
| τι | ti | anything | G5100 → | 528 times |
| ἕτερον | heteron | other | G2087 → | |
| τῇ | tea | which | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| ὑγιαινούσῃ | hugiainouse | to sound | G5198 → | |
| διδασκαλίᾳ | didaskalia | teaching | G1319 → | 21 times |
| ἀντίκειται | antikeitai | is opposed | G480 → |
πόρνοις,for the sexually immoral,
pornoisG4205 →
ἀρσενοκοίταις,for homosexuals,
arsenokoitaisG733 →
ἀνδραποδισταῖς,for enslavers,
andrapodistaisG405 →
ψεύσταις,for liars,
pseustaisG5583 →
ἐπιόρκοις,for perjurers,
epiorkoisG1965 →
καὶand
kaiG2532 →9120 times
εἴif
eiG1487 →508 times
τιanything
tiG5100 →528 times
ἕτερονother
heteronG2087 →
τῇwhich
teaG3588 →19766 times
ὑγιαινούσῃto sound
hugiainouseG5198 →
διδασκαλίᾳteaching
didaskaliaG1319 →21 times
ἀντίκειταιis opposed
antikeitaiG480 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Leviticus 18:22You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
it leads to
- 1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Leviticus 20:13
If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
- Romans 1:26–27
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
- 1 Kings 14:24
There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9
Through
Romans 1:26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
it leads to
- Jude 1:7
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jude 1:7
Through
2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
it leads to
- 2 Peter 2:1–3
Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on…
- 2 Timothy 3:1–6
But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.
- 1 Timothy 4:1–3
Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
- 2 Peter 2:1–3
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Timothy
This page draws on 11 works. Open the list of works
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Chrysostom, Homily on 1 Timothy 2; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Oecumenius, COMMENTARY ON 1 TIMOTHY; Theophylact of Ohrid, Commentary on 1 Timothy and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on 1 Timothy.