1st Timothy Chapter 1 verse 19 Holy Bible
holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith:
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Keeping faith, and being conscious of well-doing; for some, by not doing these things, have gone wrong in relation to the faith:
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maintaining faith and a good conscience; which [last] some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;
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Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
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holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;
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having faith and a good conscience, which certain having thrust away, concerning the faith did make shipwreck,
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1st Timothy 1 : 19 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - Thrust from them for put away, A.V.; made shipwreck concerning the faith for concerning faith have made shipwreck, A.V. Thrust from them. The addition "from them" is meant to give the force of the middle voice as in Acts 7:39, A.V. The verb ἀπώθομαι occurs Acts 7:27, 39; Romans 11:1, 2. It is a strong expression, implying here the willful resistance to the voice of conscience. The form ἀπωθέω, -έομαι is found, Acts 13:46, and frequently in the LXX. Which (ἥν) applies to the good conscience only. Hence the important lesson that deviations from the true faith are preceded by violations of the conscience. The surest way to maintain a pure faith is to maintain a good and tender conscience (camp. 1 Timothy 2:9; John 7:17). The faith. It is by no means certain that ἡ πίστις here means "the faith" rather than "faith" (subjectire). Both the grammar and the sense equally admit the rendering "faith," referring to the preceding, tiaras. (For the phrase, περὶ τὴν πίστιν, "with respect to," camp. 1 Timothy 6:4; 2 Timothy 2:18; Titus 2:7.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) Holding faith, and a good conscience.--Again, as in 1Timothy 1:5, the Apostle joins "faith" and "the conscience undefiled." In the mind of St. Paul, "want of faith" was no mere refusal to accept a definite religions dogma, but was ever closely connected with impurity and the love of sin. If a man dares to do wilful violence to his better nature he must not presume to dream of faith saving him. The thought expressed by another inspired teacher seems to run constantly in the mind of St. Paul: "The devils also believe and tremble."Which some.--"Some." A quiet reference here is made to those false teachers who seem to have been doing such evil work at Ephesus among the Christian believers, and against whom Timothy is so urgently warned to be on his guard in the 6th and following verses of the chapter.Having put away.--The simile in St. Paul's mind is a nautical one. The "good conscience" represents the ballast, or cargo, of the ship. When this is put away--tossed overboard--the vessel becomes unmanageable and is tossed about, the plaything of the waves, and in the end is wrecked.
