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The Goal is Love, Not Arguments
Scholars unanimously agree that the 'end' (Greek: telos) of Christian instruction is not winning arguments or debating obscure topics, but fostering genuine love (agape). Paul contrasts this ultimate goal with the divisive 'questionings' of the false teachers, emphasizing that the aim of all sound doctrine is to build up believers in love.
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1 Timothy
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Timothy 1:5
18th Century
Theologian
Now the end of the commandment. (See Barnes on Romans 10:4).
So that Timothy might fulfill the purpose of his appointment, it was n…
AT Robertson
On 1 Timothy 1:5
The end (το τελος). See Ro 6:21; 10:4 for τελος (the good aimed at, reached, result, end).
Love (αγαπη). N…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Timothy 1:5
19th Century
Bishop
Now the end.—The Greek word should be translated But the end. Though Timothy must resist and oppose these false teachers …
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Timothy 1:5–7
19th Century
Preacher
There were some who put the law into its wrong place. They made it a way of salvation, which it never was meant to be, and never can be. It is a wa…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Timothy 1:5
The “goal” (GK 5465) of this instruction of Paul (and really, all of Paul’s teaching and preaching can be included here) is “love” (GK 27). The hig…
John Gill
On 1 Timothy 1:5
17th Century
Pastor
Now the end of the commandment is charity
By the "commandment" may be meant, the order given to Timothy, or the char…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Timothy 1:5–11
17th Century
Minister
Whatever tends to weaken love for God, or love for fellow believers, tends to defeat the purpose of the commandment. The purpose of the gospel is f…