KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
1 Timothy 6:14–16
A connected passage, with study helps kept beside the verses they explain.
1 Timothy 6:14
14That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
14That thou keepe this commandement without spot, vnrebukeable, vntill the appearing of our Lord Iesus Christ.
1 Timothy 6:15
15Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
15Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed, and onely Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords:
1 Timothy 6:16
16Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
16Who onely hath immortalitie, dwelling in the light, which no man can approch vnto, whom no man hath seene, nor can see: to whom be honour and power euerlasting. Amen.
ENSURE CONTEXTUALIZATION
Add surrounding context
Extend this passage one adjacent verse at a time.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS VERSE?
Ask a Local Pastor
Find a nearby pastor committed to holding fast the faithful word, then use the public contact information to begin a real conversation. Nothing is sent or stored for you.
DEFINED WORDS
1 Timothy 6:14
To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
commandment
An authoritative command, charge, order, or precept to be obeyed, as identified by the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Outside; not within; lacking; free from; or in the absence of.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A mark, stain, blemish, or particular place; figuratively, a fault or defilement; also, to mark or stain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Coming in sight; becoming evident; making an external show; seeming; having the semblance.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
The Anointed One.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
DEFINED WORDS
1 Timothy 6:15
To show; to make visible, reveal, declare, or make known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Favored by God; happy or spiritually prosperous; or praised, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A prince, a great ruler.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616
A sovereign ruler; one who reigns over a people or realm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Lords: masters, rulers, nobles, or owners; as a verb, rules or exercises dominion. In 'Lord of lords,' the lords are rulers over whom the Lord is supreme.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (headword: lord)
DEFINED WORDS
1 Timothy 6:16
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
immortality
The state of being exempt from death or decay; endless life.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To come or draw near; a coming near.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To perceive with the eyes; to behold, observe, understand, consider, experience, or take heed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Ability, strength, authority, dominion, or the right and capacity to act.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
everlasting
Enduring forever or without end; eternal in the person, life, judgment, kingdom, mercy, righteousness, or other reality spoken of.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE
Cross References
Choose how far to extend the reference list.
From verse 14
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study23And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study28So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study24Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study10That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study9¶ And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
10Take heed now; for the Lord hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study8Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study11These things command and teach.
12Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
13Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
14Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
15Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
16Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study1I CHARGE thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study22In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study14How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study7Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study7Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study20And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the Lord God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study2Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study19But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study13To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study20O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study1NOW we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study17And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study6Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study15That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
From verse 15
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study16And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study14These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study17Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study10But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study2For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study11According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study44And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
45Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
46¶ Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.
47The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study18As I live, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study18That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study34And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study15By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study12Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
From verse 16
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study17Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study18No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study5This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study46Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study14And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study2Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study5And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study21Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study4And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study25To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study6And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study11Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study20And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study8Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study16And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
17And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
18I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study12Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study25Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
26But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
27To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study8I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study58Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study20Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study40For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION
Still have questions? Ask a Local Pastor.
See public contact information for nearby churches. You decide whether to call, email, or visit.
