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1 Timothy 5:25

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

Likewise also the good works [of some] are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

1 Timothy 5:25 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Timothy 5:25

Theological / Devotional

The good works. Whatever a man does, whether good or evil, is remembered by those who are personally affected by it, and also in the man’s own memory, where it prepares the will for a repeated performance of the same act. Good or evil becomes a habit, and men reveal today what their thinking and actions have been in the past.

They that are otherwise. Or, “those being otherwise,” meaning, “works that are otherwise than good,” that is, evil works.

Cannot be hid. That is, permanently. In time the truth will come to light.

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