1 Timothy 6:20
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:”
παραθήκη
A deposit, something entrusted, a trust. Guard what has been entrusted to your care. The Gospel is a deposit. Every believer is a trustee of the most valuable message in history.
φυλάσσω
do guard
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φυλάσσω
To guard, to keep, to watch. Phulasso. Guard the good deposit entrusted to you. The faith once delivered to the saints is a treasure. Guard it. It is worth protecting.
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γνῶσις
knowledge,
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γνῶσις
Knowledge, understanding, insight. Gnosis. The knowledge of God. True knowledge begins with knowing God. All other knowledge is context. This is the content.
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ὦ
O
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ὦ
as a sign of the vocative case, O; as a note of exclamation, oh
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ἐκτρέπω
avoiding
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ἐκτρέπω
to deflect, i.e. turn away (literally or figuratively)
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κενοφωνία
empty babblings
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κενοφωνία
empty sounding, i.e. fruitless discussion
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Τιμόθεος
Timothy,
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Τιμόθεος
dear to God; Timotheus, a Christian
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ψευδώνυμος
falsely called
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ψευδώνυμος
untruly named
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