1 Timothy 4:9 (GNV)

Passage

This is a true saying, and by all meanes worthie to be receiued.

Nearby Context

1 Timothy 4:7 But cast away prophane, and olde wiues fables, and exercise thy selfe vnto godlinesse.

1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise profiteth litle: but godlinesse is profitable vnto all things, which hath the promise of the life present, and of that that is to come.

1 Timothy 4:9 This is a true saying, and by all meanes worthie to be receiued.

1 Timothy 4:10 For therefore we labour and are rebuked, because we trust in the liuing God, which is the Sauiour of all men, specially of those that beleeue.

1 Timothy 4:11 These things warne and teache.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "true", "saying", "meanes", "worthie", and "receiued". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "true" and "saying", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "For bodily exercise profiteth litle but godlinesse..." into verse 10's "For therefore we labour and are rebuked...", so "true" and "saying" belong inside that flow. In 1 Timothy context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "true" and "saying" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.