1 Timothy 4:12 (LSB)

Passage

Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but show yourself as a model to those who believe in word, conduct, love, faith, and purity.

Nearby Context

1 Timothy 4:10 For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

1 Timothy 4:11 Command and teach these things.

1 Timothy 4:12 Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but show yourself as a model to those who believe in word, conduct, love, faith, and purity.

1 Timothy 4:13 Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and teaching.

1 Timothy 4:14 Do not neglect the gift within you, which was given to you through prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "faith", "look", "down", "youthfulness", "show", "yourself", "model", and "believe". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "faith" and "look", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "Command and teach these things..." into verse 13's "Until I come give attention to the...", so "faith" and "look" 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 "faith" and "look" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.