Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Bodily exercise (h swmatikh gumnasia). Gumnasia (from gumnazw), also a common old word, here only in N.T. So also swmatikh (from swma, body) in N.T. only here and Luke 3:22.
Profitable (wfelimov). Another old word (from wfelew, to help, to profit), in N.T. only here, Titus 3:8; II Timothy 3:16.
For a little (prov oligon). "For little." Probably extent in contrast to prov panta (for all things), though in James 4:14 it is time "for a little while."
Which now is (thv nun). "The now life."
Of that which is to come (thv melloushv). "Of the coming (future) life."
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Timothy 4:8:
1 Timothy 4:10
2 Timothy 1:1
2 Timothy 3:16
James 4:14
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