1 Timothy 1:4
ContextNETBible | nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. 1 Such things promote useless speculations rather than God’s redemptive plan 2 that operates by faith. |
XREF | 2Co 1:12; 2Co 7:9,10; Eph 4:12-16; 1Ti 3:16; 1Ti 4:7; 1Ti 6:3,11; 1Ti 6:4,20; 1Ti 6:4,5; 2Ti 2:14,16-18; 2Ti 2:22; 2Ti 4:4; Tit 1:1; Tit 1:14; Tit 3:9; Heb 13:9; 2Pe 1:16 |
NET © Notes |
1 sn Myths and interminable genealogies. These myths were legendary tales characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus and Crete. See parallels in 1 Tim 4:7; 2 Tim 4:4; and Titus 1:14. They were perhaps built by speculation from the patriarchal narratives in the OT; hence the connection with genealogies and with wanting to be teachers of the law (v. 7). 2 tc A few Western tn More literally, “the administration of God that is by faith.” sn God’s redemptive plan. The basic word (οἰκονομία, oikonomia) denotes the work of a household steward or manager or the arrangement under which he works: “household management.” As a theological term it is used of the order or arrangement by which God brings redemption through Christ (God’s “dispensation, plan of salvation” [Eph 1:10; 3:9]) or of human responsibility to pass on the message of that salvation (“stewardship, commission” [1 Cor 9:17; Eph 3:2; Col 1:25]). Here the former is in view (see the summary of God’s plan in 1 Tim 2:3-6; 2 Tim 1:9-10; Titus 3:4-7), and Paul notes the response people must make to God’s arrangement: It is “in faith” or “by faith.” |