1 Timothy 3:16

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 3:16

1 Timothy 3:16 I. Note the facts recorded. These you will perceive to be points in the life of our Lord, commencing with His incarnation, and, reaching through the intermediate period, to the time of His final exaltation. Take away the Divinity of Christ, and His example, and His teaching, and His promises lose their power, and the whole body of faith becomes cold and formal as a carcase from which the living spirit has fled. II. The greatness of the mystery involved in these facts. Wonderful... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 Timothy 3:16

DISCOURSE: 2230THE GREAT MYSTERY OF GODLINESS1 Timothy 3:16. Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.IT has been often said by infidels, that, where mystery begins, religion ends. But, if this were true, there would be no uniformity or consistency in the works of God. All his works both of creation and providence are full of... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - 1 Timothy 3:16

mystery (See Scofield " :-") . angels (See Scofield " :-") . world kosmos = mankind. (See Scofield " :-") . read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 3:1-16

Tonight we will be studying First Timothy three and four. It is interesting as Paul writes to Timothy on several occasions, he uses phrases that are interesting to me. He said, This is a faithful saying, it's worthy of all acceptation. Here he says, beginning chapter three,This is a true saying ( 1 Timothy 3:1 ),Again, he'll say, "This is a faithful saying worthy of all acceptation." He'll say, "Without controversy." He speaks to Timothy with interesting phrases affirming the truth of what he... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Timothy 3:1-16

1 Timothy 3:1 . This is a true saying, an indubitable word, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work, a laudable sphere of labour and usefulness. But by the idea of a primitive bishop we must not convey a notion of the palace of Lambeth, nor that of Cardinal Wolsey at Bishopthorpe, but rather that of a humble pastor, desiring and burning with ardour for the salvation of souls, and at the risk of bonds, of exile, and martyrdom. The day of small things is now... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Timothy 3:16

1 Timothy 3:16And without doubt great is the mystery of godliness.MysteryI shall deliver the nature of the thing itself in this definition, viz., that a mystery is truth revealed by God above the power of natural reason to find out or comprehend.1. That it is a truth. By which we exclude everything from being a mystery that is absurd and contradictions, since a truth can by no means be so.2. That it be revealed by God, viz., as to its existence, that there is such a thing. For otherwise, as to... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Timothy 3:16

16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. Ver. 16. And without controversy ] Learned Cameron beginneth this verse at those words before, "The pillar and ground of truth, and confessedly great is that mystery of godliness, God manifested in the flesh," &c. It being a usual form of speech among the Jews (as he proveth out... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Timothy 3:16

without: Hebrews 7:7 the mystery: 1 Timothy 3:9, Matthew 13:11, Romans 16:25, 1 Corinthians 2:7, Ephesians 1:9, Ephesians 3:3-1 Samuel :, Ephesians 6:19, Colossians 2:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:7, Revelation 17:5, Revelation 17:7 God: Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 9:6, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:6, Micah 5:2, Matthew 1:23, John 1:1, John 1:2, John 1:14, Acts 20:28, Romans 8:3, Romans 9:5, 1 Corinthians 15:47, Galatians 4:4, Philippians 2:6-Ruth :, Colossians 1:16-Job :, Hebrews 1:3, Hebrews 2:9-1 Chronicles... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 Timothy 3:16

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.The mystery of godliness — Afterwards specified in six articles, which sum up the whole economy of Christ upon earth.Is the pillar and ground — The foundation and support of all the truth taught in his church.God was manifest in the flesh — In the form of a servant, the fashion of a man,... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 3:16

16. And for this truth a powerful pillar is required, for without controversy, and confessedly, it must be conceded, even to the errorists, that its mystery is great. But that it is in no discouraged or apologizing tone that the apostle admits this mystery is clear, not only from the six luminous points through which he next traces the history of the incarnation, but from the inverted form of the proposition, Great is the mystery of godliness; a proposition far sublimer than that... read more

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