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10 For to this end1 we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, awho is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.  
11 These things command and teach.

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12 Let no one1 despise your youth, but be an aexample to the believers in word, in conduct, in love,2 in spirit, in faith, in purity.  
13 Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to1 doctrine.  
14 aDo not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy bwith the laying on of the hands of the eldership.  
15 Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.
16 Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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1 Timothy 4:12

Let no man despise thy youth—Act so as to be respected in spite of thy youth (I Corinthians 16:11; Titus 2:15); compare "youthful" as to Timothy (II Timothy 2:22). He was but a mere youth when he joined Paul (Acts 16:1-3). Eleven years had elapsed since then to the time subsequent to Paul's first imprisonment. He was, therefore, still young; especially in comparison with Paul, whose place he was filling; also in relation to elderly presbyters whom he should "entreat as a father" (I Timothy 5:1), and generally in respect to his duties in rebuking, exhorting, and ordaining (I Timothy 3:1), which ordinarily accord best with an elderly person (I Timothy 5:19).

be thou an example—Greek, "become a pattern" (Titus 2:7); the true way of making men not to despise (slight, or disregard) thy youth.

in word—in all that thou sayest in public and private.

conversation—that is, "behavior" the Old English sense of the word.

in charity . . . faith—the two cardinal principles of the Christian (Galatians 5:6). The oldest manuscripts omit, "in spirit."

in purity—simplicity of holy motive followed out in consistency of holy action [ALFORD] (I Timothy 5:22; II Corinthians 6:6; James 3:17; James 4:8; I Peter 1:22).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Timothy 4:12:

Acts 16:1-5
1 Corinthians 16:11
1 Thessalonians 1:1
1 Thessalonians 3:2
1 Timothy 4:6
1 Timothy 4:15
1 Timothy 4:15
1 Timothy 4:16
1 Timothy 5:1
2 Timothy 1:7
2 Timothy 2:22
Titus 2:15
Hebrews 13:7
1 Peter 5:3

 

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