BLB 1Ti 4

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1Ti 4:8 — For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

bodily		1Sa 15:22; Psa 50:7-15; Isa 1:11-16; Isa 58:3-5; Jer 6:20; Amo 5:21-24; 1Cr 8:8; Col 2:21-23; Hbr 13:9
little		or, for a little time. Hbr 9:9,10
godliness		1Ti 6:6; Job 22:2; Tts 3:8
having		Deu 28:1-14; Job 5:19-26; Psa 37:3,4,16-19,29; Psa 84:11; Psa 91:10-16; Psa 112:1-3; Psa 128:1-6; Psa 145:19; Pro 3:16-18; Ecc 8:12; Isa 3:10; Isa 32:17,18; Isa 33:16; Isa 65:13,14; Mat 5:3-12; Mat 6:33; Mat 19:29; Mar 10:19,20; Luk 12:31; Luk 12:32; Rom 8:28; 1Cr 3:22; 2Pe 1:3,4; 1Jo 2:25; Rev 3:12,21

Correlating Passages

bodily

	1Sa 15:22	And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the fat of rams.
	Psa 50:7	Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.
	Psa 50:8	I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, [to have been] continually before me.
	Psa 50:9	I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he goats out of thy folds.
	Psa 50:10	For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills.
	Psa 50:11	I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field [are] mine.
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	Isa 1:11	To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
	Isa 1:12	When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
	Isa 1:13	Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
	Isa 1:14	Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].
	Isa 1:15	And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
	Isa 1:16	Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
	Isa 58:3	Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and thou seest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
	Isa 58:4	Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
	Isa 58:5	Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? [is it] to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
	Jer 6:20	To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings [are] not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
	Amo 5:21	I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
	Amo 5:22	Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept [them]: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
	Amo 5:23	Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
	Amo 5:24	But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
	1Cr 8:8	But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
	Col 2:21	(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
	Col 2:22	Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
	Col 2:23	Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
	Hbr 13:9	Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

little

	Hbr 9:9	Which [was] a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
	Hbr 9:10	[Which stood] only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed [on them] until the time of reformation.

godliness

	1Ti 6:6	But godliness with contentment is great gain.
	Job 22:2	Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
	Tts 3:8	[This is] a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

having

	Deu 28:1	And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
	Deu 28:2	And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
	Deu 28:3	Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.
	Deu 28:4	Blessed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
	Deu 28:5	Blessed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.
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	Job 5:19	He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
	Job 5:20	In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
	Job 5:21	Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
	Job 5:22	At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
	Job 5:23	For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
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	Psa 37:3	Trust in the LORD, and do good; [so] shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
	Psa 37:4	Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
	Psa 37:16	A little that a righteous man hath [is] better than the riches of many wicked.
	Psa 37:17	For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.
	Psa 37:18	The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
	Psa 37:19	They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
	Psa 37:29	The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
	Psa 84:11	For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
	Psa 91:10	There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
	Psa 91:11	For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
	Psa 91:12	They shall bear thee up in [their] hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
	Psa 91:13	Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
	Psa 91:14	Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
	Psa 91:15	He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
	Psa 91:16	With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
	Psa 112:1	Praise ye the LORD. Blessed [is] the man [that] feareth the LORD, [that] delighteth greatly in his commandments.
	Psa 112:2	His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.