1 Timothy 1:5

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 1:3-5

‘As I exhorted you to stay awhile at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, so that you might charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine, nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a household management of God which is in faith; so do I now. But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned,’ ‘As I exhorted you to stay awhile at Ephesus.’ Timothy had been ministering in Ephesus, and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 1:3-17

Paul’s Initial Charge To Timothy (1 Timothy 1:3-17 ). Timothy is first reminded why he is in Ephesus and what his task is. a He has been called on to charge the church leaders to be faithful to the truth and not to heed false teachers, some of whose teachings are indicated as being connected with ‘fables and endless genealogies which raise questions’ (1 Timothy 1:3-5). b Paul then gives his verdict on those false teachers. They desire to be ‘Teachers Of The Law’ but in fact lack the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 1:3-11

( b) 1 Timothy 1:3-Proverbs : . Reminder of Paul’ s Verbal Charge. 1 Timothy 1:3-1 Kings : . The False Teaching, and a Digression on the Law.— Some years before, Paul had foretold that error would assail the Church in Asia ( Acts 20:29 f.). His fear had now been realised. On his recent visit to Macedonia (Intro. § 5 ) he had already given Timothy instruction concerning it, and this he here renews. The authority of the errorists to teach is not disputed. Perhaps all Christian men could engage... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Timothy 1:5-6

Now the end of the commandment is charity: the word translated commandment here is παραγγελια, which rather signifies a particular charge given by superiors as to some thing, than a general law, Acts 5:28; Acts 16:24; and so in this chapter, 1 Timothy 1:18; which inclineth me to think, that though the proposition be true of the whole law of God, (for love is the fulfilling of the law), and more eminently of the Divine doctrine in the gospel, for the end and perfection it aims at and produces is... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Timothy 1:5-7

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES1 Timothy 1:5. The end of the commandment.—The end is not the same thing as the fulfilment of the law. It is the goal towards which, with strenuous endeavour, each Christian must press on. “Commandment” (R.V. “charge”) is the monitory teaching—a touch of severity clings to the word from the old “economy.” Unfeigned.—So of “love” (Romans 12:9); of “wisdom from above” (James 3:17) (without hypocrisy).1 Timothy 1:6. Some having swerved.—Margin, “not aiming at.” R.V.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 1:5

1 Timothy 1:5 I. Taking the declaration of the text in its simplicity, and looking out over the Christian world, we are disposed, simply enough, perhaps, on our part, to say what a pity it is that people do not oftener ask themselves amidst all their conscientious observance of Christianity, and all their lifelong toil to do their duty by it, whereunto it all tends; what is the one general effect which He who ordained Christianity as a great commandment for us intended it to produce? Our text... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 Timothy 1:5

DISCOURSE: 2220CHARITY THE TRUE SCOPE OF THE GOSPEL1 Timothy 1:5. Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good, conscience, and of faith unfeigned.THE Gospel of Christ is thought by many to be a source of evil: and certain it is, that evils have not unfrequently followed in its train. But we must distinguish between two things, which are very often confounded; namely, the cause of evil, and the occasion of evil. There is not any blessing which divine Providence... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 1:1-20

First Timothy.Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour ( 1 Timothy 1:1 ),And the Greek word is "the royal commandment" of God; it's a word that is used when a king had made a decree. It is interesting that Paul so often introduces himself as an apostle by the will of God. But here he declares he is an apostle by the commandment of God.The word apostle is one who has been sent out; idea of an emissary or an ambassador. And that's exactly what Paul saw himself, as an... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Timothy 1:1-20

1 Timothy 1:1 . Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ. Beza cites here the reading of the Complute polyglot bible, made under the patronage of cardinal Ximenes of Spain, in 1517, which reads, Θεου Πατρος , of God the Father, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, our hope. Montanus has followed this reading. But what need to say to Timothy, that Paul was an apostle? Answer: because he would honour him as a great minister, as well as love... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Timothy 1:5-7

1 Timothy 1:5-7Now the end of the commandment is charity.The end of the commandmentThese verses are occupied with a description of what God’s dispensation was meant to produce, and indicate how it came to pass that many failed of it. “The commandment” or charge which Timothy had received had this as its end or purpose--the promotion of “love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.” By love is meant the right relation of the whole nature both to God and to man; for... read more

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