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1 Tim. 1:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Holdingf faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

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1 Tim. 3:9• ⁹holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. (1 Tim. 3:9)

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Holding.

1 Tim. 1:5• ⁵Now the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned; (1 Tim. 1:5)

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1 Tim. 3:9• ⁹holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. (1 Tim. 3:9)

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Titus 1:9• ⁹holding to the faithful word that is according to the teaching, that he may be able both to encourage in the healthful doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers. (Titus 1:9)

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Heb. 3:14• ¹⁴For we are become companions of Christ if indeed we hold fast the beginning of the confidence firm unto the end. (Heb. 3:14)

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1 Peter 3:15‑16• ¹⁵but sanctify the Christ as Lord in your hearts, ready always for answer to everyone that asketh you a reason for the hope that is in you, but with meekness and fear,
¹⁶having a good conscience, that in what they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed that revile your good behaviour in Christ. (1 Peter 3:15‑16)

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Rev. 3:3,8,10• ³Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard; and keep it, and repent. If therefore thou watch not, I will come [upon thee] as a thief, and thou shalt in no wise know what hour I will come upon thee.
⁸I know thy works. Behold, I have set before thee an open door which no one can shut: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
¹⁰Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial that is about to come on all the habitable {i}world{/i}, to try those that dwell on the earth. (Rev. 3:3,8,10)

which.

Phil. 3:18‑19• ¹⁸For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ,
¹⁹whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is] the belly, and they glory in their shame, who mind the things of earth. (Phil. 3:18‑19)

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2 Tim. 3:1‑6• ¹But this know, that in [the] last days grievous times shall be there.
²For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
³without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, uncontrolled, fierce, haters of good,
⁴traitors, headstrong, puffed up, pleasure-lovers rather than God-lovers,
⁵having a form of piety, but having denied the power thereof; and from these turn away.
⁶For of these are they that enter into houses and lead captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts, (2 Tim. 3:1‑6)

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2 Peter 2:1‑3,12‑22• ¹But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also false teachers among you, such as shall bring in by-the-bye sects of perdition, denying even the Sovereign Master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift perdition;
²and many shall follow their dissolutenesses; because of whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed.
³And in covetousness with feigned words, they shall make merchandise of you: for whom judgment from of old is not idle, and their perdition slumbereth not.
¹²But these, as irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, speaking evil in what things they are ignorant, shall also perish in their corruption,
¹³receiving as they shall wages of unrighteousness, accounting [their] ephemeral luxury pleasure; spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their love feasts, feasting with you;
¹⁴having eyes full of an adulteress and without cessation from sin; setting baits for unstable souls; having a heart practiced in covetousness, children of curse;
¹⁵abandoning as they did a straight way, they went astray, following out in the way of Balaam [son] of Beor, who loved wages of unrighteousness,
¹⁶but had reproof of his own iniquity; a dumb beast of burden speaking with man's voice forbade the madness of the prophet.
¹⁷These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved.
¹⁸For uttering overswellings of vanity, they allure in lusts of the flesh, by dissolutenesses, those that are just escaping from them that walk in error,
¹⁹promising them liberty while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is worsted, by him is he also held in bondage.
²⁰For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, but again entangled and worsted thereby, the last for them is become worse than the first.
²¹For it were better for them not to have known well the way of righteousness than knowing well to have turned back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
²²[But] there hath happened to them the [saying] of the true proverb, A dog returned to his own vomit, and A sow washed into rolling in mire. (2 Peter 2:1‑3,12‑22)

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Jude 10‑13• ¹⁰But these rail at whatever things they know not; but whatever they understand naturally, as the irrational animals, in these things they corrupt themselves.
¹¹Woe unto them! because they went in the way of Cain, and rushed greedily into the error of Balaam's hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
¹²These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together, fearlessly pasturing themselves; clouds without water carried along by winds; autumnal trees without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;
¹³raging sea-waves foaming out their own shames; wandering stars for whom hath been reserved the gloom of darkness forever. (Jude 10‑13)

concerning.

1 Tim. 4:1‑2• ¹But the Spirit saith expressly that in latter times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,
²by hypocrisy of legendmongers, branded in their own conscience, (1 Tim. 4:1‑2)

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1 Cor. 11:19• ¹⁹for there must be even sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you. (1 Cor. 11:19)

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Gal. 1:6‑8• ⁶I wonder that thus quickly ye are being removed from him that called you in Christ's grace to a different gospel
⁷which is not another, but there are some that trouble you and desire to pervert the gospel of Christ.
⁸But even if we or an angel out of heaven preach to you contrary to what we preached to you, accursed let him be. (Gal. 1:6‑8)

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Gal. 5:4• ⁴Ye have derived no effect from Christ, whoever are being justified by law; ye have fallen from grace. (Gal. 5:4)

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2 Tim. 4:4• ⁴and from the truth they will turn away their ear, and will be turned aside unto fables. (2 Tim. 4:4)

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Heb. 6:4‑6• ⁴For [it is] impossible to renew again unto repentance those that were once enlightened
⁵and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit and tasted God's good word, and powers of an age to come,
⁶and have fallen away, while for themselves crucifying and making a show of the Son of God. (Heb. 6:4‑6)

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1 John 2:19• ¹⁹From us they went out, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have abode with us, but [they went out] that they might be manifested that none are of us. (1 John 2:19)

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1 Tim. 6:9• ⁹But those that wish to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, such as sink men into destruction and perdition. (1 Tim. 6:9)

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Matt. 6:27• ²⁷And which of you by anxiety can add to his stature one cubit? (Matt. 6:27)

• "faith" as an inward state is different from "the faith" or truth believed. (“On 1 Timothy 1:18-20” by W. Kelly)

• For if faith bring God in, a good conscience judges self and keeps sin out. (“On 1 Timothy 1:18-20” by W. Kelly)

• The loss of a good conscience opens the door to Satan, because it deprives us of communion with God; and the active mind, under Satan’s influence, invents ideas instead of confessing the truth of God. (“1 Timothy 1” by J.N. Darby)

• Faith in this passage is, as one has said, "The doctrine of Christianity... that which God had revealed, received with certainty as such-as the truth" (J.N.D.). (“The Charge and Its End: 1 Timothy 1” by H. Smith)

• {good conscience} How often the heresies into which believers fall have their secret root in some indulged and unjudged sin which defiles the conscience, robs the soul of communion with God and leaves it a prey to the influences of Satan. (“The Charge and Its End: 1 Timothy 1” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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maintaininge faithf and a good conscience; which last some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;

JND Translation Notes

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Or "holding fast," as 2 Tim. 1.13.

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The word "faith" embraces two ideas. doctrine, as taught of God and received; and subjectively the state of soul. If I have cast off the faith, the doctrine and the state of soul are both gone. Here "faith" (first time) is the inward energy of grace which holds fast the truth. The two are not separated, but the state of the soul is first in the apostle's mind. In the second, they, having put away a good conscience, did not hold fast the faith, but lost it in some way thus objectively. In this second case, there is the article in Greek, which does not exclude faith in the soul, but leads the mind to the faith. In English "the faith" would be too absolute or merely doctrinal.

W. Kelly Translation

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holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made shipwreck concerning the faith;