1 Timothy 4:8

Bodily training has some value, but godliness holds promise for this life and the next. It prizes spiritual discipline above physical.

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• Matt 6:33But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
• 1 Tim 6:6But godliness with contentment is great gain.
• Ps 37:3–4Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
• Col 2:21–23“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”
• Prov 22:4The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.
• Prov 19:23The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.
• Ps 37:11But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
• Mark 10:30but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
• 1 Jn 2:25This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
• Job 5:19–26He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.
• Ps 145:19He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
• Ps 112:1–3Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
• Matt 5:3–12“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Ps 37:29The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.
• Ps 128:1–6A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
• Prov 3:16–18Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
• Eccl 8:12Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
• Ps 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
• Heb 13:9Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
• Job 22:2“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
• 1 Sam 15:22Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
• Titus 3:8This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
• Ps 50:7–15“Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
• Isa 3:10Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
• Deut 28:1–14It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
• Rev 3:21He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
• Isa 32:17–18The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
• Isa 33:16he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
• Jer 6:20To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.”
• Ps 91:10–16no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.
• Isa 1:11–16“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
• 2 Pet 1:3–4seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;
• 1 Cor 8:8But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
• Amos 5:21–24I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
• Ps 37:16–19Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.
• Mark 10:19–20You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”
• Isa 65:13–14Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;
• Ps 37:9For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.
• Luke 12:31–32But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
• Matt 19:29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

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