| Faithful Sayings — Part 2 |
| The Eternal Benefit of a Godly Life |
| “For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation” (1 Timothy 4:8-9). |
| To emphasize the importance of spiritual exercise as to living a godly life, the Apostle contrasts it with “bodily exercise.” The allusion is probably to the public games that people would have been familiar with at that time. He makes further reference to these events when he says, “And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway” (1 Corinthians 9:25-27). |
| So here he says that this bodily exercise is only profitable in some small things; but the spiritual exercise of piety is profitable unto all things, being rich with blessing in this life as well as in that which is to come. |
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