1 Timothy 6:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. ”

• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  But thou, O man of God, flee these things - These allurements of wealth, and these sad consequences which the love of gold produces. And follow after righteousness, ... - Make these the grand...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (9) But thou, O (e) man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. (9) A peculiar exhortation to various virtues, with which it appropriat...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  ( b ) 1 Timothy 6:11-16 . Timothy's Call to Fidelity. In contrast with this quest for worldly profit ( 1 Timothy 6:5 ; 1 Timothy 6:9 f.) Timothy must pursue the Christian virtues. Let him, in li...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  righteousness . App-191. love. App-135. meekness . See 1 Corinthians 4:21 .

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things By calling him man of God he adds weight to the exhortation. If it be thought proper to limit to the preceding verse the injunction which he g...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 2237 PRACTICAL PIETY ENFORCED 1 Timothy 6:11 . Thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness . NEVER can we lay to...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. But thou, O man of God - Thou, who hast taken God for thy portion, and art seeki...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. But thou - in contrast to the "some" ( 1 Timothy 6:10 ). Man of God...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Concerning Servants, the Rich, and Corrupt Teachers 1, 2. The eighth charge to Timothy, as to bondservants or slaves. We have here an indication of the way in which Christianity abolished slavery—...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  But thou, O man of God, flee these things. — A commentator always speaks with great caution when he approaches in these inspired writings anything of the nature of a direct personal reference. The...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Fight the Good Fight of the Faith” 1 Timothy 6:11-21 The poor need not envy the rich. Wealth makes no difference in the audit of eternity. A man cannot eat more than a certain amount of food,...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The final injunction of the apostle concerning Timothy's duty toward his flock had to do with his dealing with Christian slaves. The master must not treat them with contempt. They are to recognize th...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (11) But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. (12) Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto tho...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But thou, O man of God ,.... Not only by creation, as every man is; nor merely by special grace, as everyone is, that is chosen of God, redeemed by Christ, and regenerated and sanctified by the Spir...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Ver. 11. But thou, O man of God ] If Timothy were that angel of the Church o...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  But thou, O man of God Whatever all the world else do; (a man of God is either a prophet, a messenger of God, or a man devoted to God, a man of another world;) flee As from a serpent, instead of...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  It may be noted that in this epistle the relationships of husband and wives, children and parents, are not mentioned, as are the questions of elders, widows, and now servants. For family ties are not...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Excellence of Contentment; Evil of Covetousness. A. D.  64.       6 But godliness with contentment...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  O man of God; that is, O thou minister of God, whose service is not the service of the world. It is a compellation borrowed from the Old Testament, where we find it often applied to such whose work...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES 1 Timothy 6:11 . Flee these things; and follow after. —We have a vivid view of the fear on the one side, and the eagerness of desire on the other. MAIN HOMILETIC...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Scofield Reference Notes

  righteousness ( See Scofield) - ( 1 John 3:7 ).

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Timothy 6:1 . Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, by obeying their commands, for in civil society we are all servants, and have duties which...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION 1 Timothy 6:1 Are servants for servants as are , A.V.; the doctrine for his doctrine , A.V. Servants ; literally, slaves . That slaves formed a considerable portion...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  but thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 23:14 ; 1 Corinthians 10:14 ; 1 Corinthians 14:1 ; 1 Corinthians 6:18 ; 1 Kings 13:1 ; 1 Kings 13:26 ; 1 Kings 17:18 ; 1 Kings 17:24 ; 1 Kings 20:28 ; 1 Peter 3:11 ; 1 Samuel...

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• 1 Timothy 6:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  But thou, O man of God — Whatever all the world else do. A man of God is either a prophet, a messenger of God, or a man devoted to God; a man of another world. Flee — As from a serpent, instead of...

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