Bodily exercise (η σωματικη γυμνασια). Γυμνασια (from γυμναζω), also a common old word, here only in N.T. So also σωματικη (from σ…

For bodily exercise profiteth little. A marginal note reads, for a little time. The Greek will admit of either interpretation, an…

For bodily exercise profiteth little.—More accurately rendered, bodily exercise is profitable for little. St. Paul here, no doubt…

Timothy is to avoid “godless myths” and tall “tales” such as elderly women love to tell children. That is the way Paul describes the Jewish legends…

For bodily exercise is of little profit. By the exercise “of the body,” he does not mean that which consists in hunting, or in the race-co…

For bodily exercise profiteth little
Meaning not the exercise of the body in the Olympic games, as by running, wrest…

Outward acts of self-denial benefit little. What will it benefit us to mortify the body, if we do not mortify sin? No diligence in mere outward thi…

Previously, the Apostle rejected superstitious abstinence from goods. Here, he commands Timothy to present this teaching to the brothers. He first …