18 That they do good, and be rich in good works, and be ready to distribute, and communicate,

19 (A)[a]Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may obtain eternal life.

20 [b]O Timothy, keep that which is committed unto thee, and avoid profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 6:19 The praise of liberality by the effects thereof: because it is a sure testimony of the Spirit of God which dwelleth in us, and therefore of the salvation that shall be given us.
  2. 1 Timothy 6:20 He rehearseth the chiefest of all the former exhortations, which ought to be deeply imprinted in the minds of all ministers of the word, to wit, that they eschew all vain babblings of sophistry and continue in the simplicity of sincere doctrine.

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