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1 Timothy 4:2
2speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience,
1 Timothy 4:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
- New International Version (NIV)Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
- English Standard Version (ESV)through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,
- New King James Version (NKJV)speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,
Context of 1 Timothy 4:2
1But the Spirit speaks expressly, that in latter times some shall apostatise from the faith, giving their mind to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience, 3forbidding to marry, [bidding] to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth. 4For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing [is] to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;
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Cross-references for 1 Timothy 4:2
- 1 Kings 13:18And he said to him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spoke to me by the word of Jehovah saying, Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. He lied unto him.
- 1 Kings 22:22And Jehovah said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice [him], and also succeed: go forth, and do so.
- Isaiah 9:15the ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
- Jeremiah 5:21Hear now this, O foolish and heartless people, who have eyes and see not; who have ears, and hear not.
- Jeremiah 23:14And in the prophets of Jerusalem have I seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in falsehood, and strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none doth return from his wickedness. They are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
- Daniel 8:23And at the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors shall have come to the full, a king of bold countenance, and understanding riddles, shall stand up.
- Matthew 7:15But beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but within are ravening wolves.
- Matthew 24:24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
- Acts 20:30and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.
- Romans 16:18For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
- Ephesians 4:14in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of that teaching [which is] in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;
- 2 Timothy 3:5having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away.
- 2 Peter 2:1But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction;
- Revelation 16:14for they are [the] spirits of demons, doing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole habitable world to gather them together to the war of [that] great day of God the Almighty.
- Romans 1:28And according as they did not think good to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;
- Ephesians 4:19who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.
Commentaries on 1 Timothy 4:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Speaking lies in hypocrisy - Persons pretending, not only to Divine inspiration, but also to extraordinary degrees of holiness, self-denial, mortification, etc., in order to accredit the lies and false doctrines which they taught. Multitudes of lies were framed concerning miracles wrought by the relics of departed saints, as they were termed. For, even in this country, Thomas a Becket was, deemed a saint, his relics wrought numerous miracles; and his tomb…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Speaking lies in hypocrisy - ̓ ̔ ́ en hupokrisei pseudologōnOr rather, “by, or through the hypocrisy of those speaking lies. So it is rendered by Whitby, Benson, Macknight, and others. Our translators have rendered it as if the word translated “speaking lies” - ́ pseudologōn- referred to “demons,” or, “devils,” ́ daimoniōn- in the previous verse. But there are two objections to this. One is, that then, as Koppe observes, the words would have been…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2whose consciences are seared with a hot iron: Dead consciences either do not work or work in harmful ways, making judgments that go against the truth of the good news about Jesus (see also Titus 1:15; Romans 1:28–32).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. Rather translate, "Through (literally, 'in'; the element in which the apostasy has place) the hypocrisy of lying speakers"; this expresses the means through which "some shall (be led to) depart from the faith," namely, the reigned sanctity of the seducers (compare "deceivers," Tit 1:10). having their conscience seared--Greek, "having their own conscience," &c., that is, not only "speaking lies" to others, but also having their own conscience seared…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Timothy 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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