{"id":3464,"date":"2014-10-24T08:40:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T14:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2023-04-01T09:10:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T15:10:40","slug":"1-timothy-412-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3464","title":{"rendered":"1 Timothy 4:12-13"},"content":{"rendered":"

12 Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

13 Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

despise (v.12) = contempt displayed by\u00a0 harmful action \u2014 active, not a mere feeling \u2014 tense indicates forbidding an action already occurring<\/h3>\n

youth (v.12) \u2014 Timothy was at least 30 and perhaps as old as 40, but still younger than most ministers and the elders in his church<\/h3>\n

be (v.12) = keep on becoming \u2014 so … Don’t allow anyone to continue pushing you aside. Rather, keep on becoming an example by …<\/h3>\n

example (v.12) = type, example to be imitated, pattern<\/h3>\n

word (v.12) \u2014 speech<\/h3>\n

conduct (v.12) \u2014 translated elsewhere as “behavior,” “life,” “living”<\/h3>\n

love (v.12) = agape<\/em> \u2014 sacrifice for the benefit of others<\/h3>\n

in spirit (v.12) \u2014 not in the original manuscripts<\/h3>\n

purity (v.12) \u2014 of motive as well as action<\/h3>\n

give attention (v.13) \u2014 give heed, attach oneself to, apply oneself to, cleave to<\/h3>\n

reading (v.13) \u2014 public reading of Scripture<\/h3>\n

exhortation (v.13) = encouragement \u2014 urge to adopt a certain course of conduct<\/h3>\n

doctrine (v.13) = teaching<\/h3>\n

What Paul was probably referring to was the nature of public ministry \u2014 reading Scripture, encouraging good conduct and teaching sound doctrine \u2014 although a minister should also attend to these things in his own life.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

12 Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 13 Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. despise (v.12) … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-timothy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7640,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/7640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}