Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen. New Living Translation All honor and glory to God forever and ever! He is the eternal King, the unseen one who never dies; he alone is God. Amen. English Standard Version To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. Berean Standard Bible Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. Berean Literal Bible Now to the King of the ages, the immortal, invisible, only God, be honor and glory to the ages of the ages. Amen. King James Bible Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. New King James Version Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. New American Standard Bible Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. NASB 1995 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. NASB 1977 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. Legacy Standard Bible Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. Amplified Bible Now to the King of the ages [eternal], immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. Christian Standard Bible Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. Holman Christian Standard Bible Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. American Standard Version Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen. Aramaic Bible in Plain English But to The King of the universe, to him who is indestructible and unseen, who is The One God, be honor and glory to the eternity of eternities. Amen. Contemporary English Version I pray that honor and glory will always be given to the only God, who lives forever and is the invisible and eternal King! Amen. Douay-Rheims Bible Now to the king of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. English Revised Version Now unto the King eternal, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. GOD'S WORD® Translation Worship and glory belong forever to the eternal king, the immortal, invisible, and only God. Amen. Good News Translation To the eternal King, immortal and invisible, the only God--to him be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen. International Standard Version Now to the King Eternal—the immortal, invisible, and only God—be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen. Literal Standard Version And to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, [is] honor and glory through the ages of the ages! Amen. Majority Standard Bible Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. New American Bible To the king of ages, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. NET Bible Now to the eternal king, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen. New Revised Standard Version To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. New Heart English Bible Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. Webster's Bible Translation Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, God the only wise, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen. Weymouth New Testament Now to the immortal and invisible King of the Ages, who alone is God, be honour and glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen. World English Bible Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. Young's Literal Translation and to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, is honour and glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context God's Grace to Paul…16But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life. 17Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. 18Timothy, my child, I entrust you with this command in keeping with the previous prophecies about you, so that by them you may fight the good fight,… Cross References Psalm 145:13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is faithful in all His words and kind in all His actions. John 5:44 How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? Romans 2:7 To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life. Romans 2:10 but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, first for the Jew, then for the Greek. Romans 11:36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen. Colossians 1:15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 1 Timothy 6:15 which the blessed and only Sovereign One--the King of kings and Lord of lords--will bring about in His own time. Treasury of Scripture Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen. the King. 1 Timothy 6:15,16 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; … Psalm 10:16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. Psalm 45:1,6 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer… invisible. John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: the only. Romans 16:27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen. Jude 1:25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. be. 1 Chronicles 29:11 Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. Nehemiah 9:5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. Psalm 41:13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. Amen. Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Jump to Previous Ages Alone Amen Eternal Ever-Living Forever Glory Honor Honour Immortal Invisible Unseen WiseJump to Next Ages Alone Amen Eternal Ever-Living Forever Glory Honor Honour Immortal Invisible Unseen Wise1 Timothy 1 1. Paul declares Timothy is faithful to the charge which was given him at his going to Macedonia.5. The right use and end of the law. 11. Paul's calling to be an apostle; 20. and the disobedience or Hymenaeus and Alexander. (17) Now unto the King.--The wonderful chain of thoughts (1Timothy 1:12-16) which so well illustrate the great assertion of 1Timothy 1:15--"that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners"--St. Paul closes with a noble ascription of praise and thankfulness to the great God. This doxology is addressed to no one Person of the ever blessed Trinity, but is--as has been said with great truth--"a grand testimony to the monotheism of St. Paul: the Godhead, the Trinity of his worship, is a sublime unity. To this Eternal, Incorruptible One be glory and honour unto the ages of the ages. Amen." Eternal.--More accurately rendered, (to the King) of the ages. The King of the Ages is the sovereign dispenser and disposer of the ages of the world. There is no reference at all here to the Gnostic aeons. Immortal (or incorruptible).--This epithet and the following one--"invisible"--are connected with "God," not, with the preceding clause, "to the King of the Ages." God is immortal, in contrast with the beings of earth, and-- Invisible, in contrast with the visible creation. The only wise God.--The only God, the most ancient authorities omitting "wise." "Only," as in 1Timothy 6:15 : "the blessed and only potentate." "The only God," a contrast to the multitude of created spirits, angels, principalities, powers, &c. (See 1Corinthians 8:5-6.) . . . Verse 17. - Incorruptible for immortal, A.V.; only God for only wise God, A.V. and T.R. The King eternal. The Greek has the unusual phrase, τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν αἰώνων, "the king of the worlds or ages," which is not found elsewhere in the New Testament, but is found twice in the LXX. - Tobit 13:6 and 10-and in the Liturgy of St. James, in the εὐχὴ τῆς ἐνάρξεως and elsewhere. The similar phrase, ὁ Θεὸς τῶν αἰώνων, is also found in Ecclus. 36:17. In all these passages it is quite clear that the phrase is equivalent to αἰώνιος, Eternal, as a title of the Lord, as in Romans 16:26. The genitive τῶν αἰώνων is qualitative. In Tobit 13:6 he is "the Lord of righteousness," i.e. the righteous Lord; and "the King of the ages," i.e. of eternity, i.e. "the eternal King," the King through all the ages. And in ver. 10 it is said, "Bless the eternal King," who, it follows, will, as King, "love the miserable εἰς πάσας τᾶς γενέας τοῦ αἰῶνος;" and then it follows, in ver. 12, "They that love thee shall be blessed εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα;" and again in ver. 18, "Bless the Lord, who hath exalted Jerusalem εἰς πάντας τοὺς αἰῶνας;" and the same conception is in the phrase, σὺ εῖ ὁ Θεὸς τῶν αἰώνων. Satan, on the other hand. is (ὁ θεὸς τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου, "the god of this world" (compare such passages as Psalm 102:24; Psalm 104:31; Psalm 105:8; Psalm 135:13; Psalm 145:13; and the doxology in the Lord's Prayer, "Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, εἰς, τοὺς αἰῶνας). It seems to be, therefore, quite certain that St. Paul is here using a familiar Jewish phrase for "eternal" which has nothing whatever to do with Gnostic eons. Perhaps in the use of the phrase, βασιλεὺς τῶν αἰώνων, we may trace a contrast passing through the writer's mind between the short-lived power of that hateful βασιλεύς, Nero, by whom his life would soon be taken away, and the kingdom of the eternal King (comp. 1 Timothy 6:15, 16). Incorruptible (ἀφθάρτῳ); applied to God also in Romans 1:23, where, as here, it means "immortal" (ὁ μόνος ἔχων ἀθανασίαν, 1 Timothy 6:16), not subject to the corruption of death, just as ἀφθαρσία is coupled with "life" (2 Timothy 1:10) and opposed to "death" So on the other hand, φθορά means "death." φθαρτός, "perishable." Elsewhere it is applied to a crown, to the raised dead, to the inherit-ante of the saints, to the seed of the new birth, to the apparel of a holy heart, which no rust or moth corrupts (1 Corinthians 9:25; 1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Peter 1:4, 23; 1 Peter 3:4). Invisible (ἀοράτῳ); as Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 11:27. (See also Romans 1:20; and comp. 1 Timothy 6:16, for the sense.) The word is used by Philo of God, and of the Word. Here it is especially predicated of God the Father, according to what our Lord says (John 1:18; John 6:46; John 14:9); though some of the Fathers, Nicene and post-Nicene, predicate it also of the Word or Second Person (Hilary, Chrysostom, etc.). But in Scripture the Son is spoken of as the Manifestation, the Image (εἰκών and χαρακτήρ) of the Father, through whom t he Father is seen and known; ἀόρατος, therefore, applies to the Father (see Bishop Lightfoot's note on Colossians 1:15). The only God. The best manuscripts omit σοφῷ, which seems to have crept in here from Romans 16:26. The exact construction is, "To the eternal King, the Immortal, the Invisible, the only God [or, 'who alone is God'], be honor," etc. Be honor and glory. A little varied from St. Paul's usual doxologies (see Romans 11:36; 6:27; Galatians 1:5; Ephesians 3:21; and 1 Timothy 6:16, where δόξα stands alone, and has the article - Ellicott on Galatians 1:5). In Romans 2:10 δόξα and τιμή are coupled together, but applied to man. This interposition of doxology is quite in St. Paul's manner.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Nowδὲ (de) Conjunction Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc. to Τῷ (Tō) Article - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. [the] King Βασιλεῖ (Basilei) Noun - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 935: A king, ruler, but in some passages clearly to be translated: emperor. Probably from basis; a sovereign. eternal, αἰώνων (aiōnōn) Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural Strong's 165: From the same as aei; properly, an age; by extension, perpetuity; by implication, the world; specially a Messianic period. immortal, ἀφθάρτῳ (aphthartō) Adjective - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 862: Indestructible, imperishable, incorruptible; hence: immortal. Undecaying. [and] invisible, ἀοράτῳ (aoratō) Adjective - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 517: Unseen, invisible. Invisible. [the] only μόνῳ (monō) Adjective - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 3441: Only, solitary, desolate. Probably from meno; remaining, i.e. Sole or single; by implication, mere. God, Θεῷ (Theō) Noun - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. [be] honor τιμὴ (timē) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 5092: A price, honor. From tino; a value, i.e. Money paid, or valuables; by analogy, esteem, or the dignity itself. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. glory δόξα (doxa) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 1391: From the base of dokeo; glory, in a wide application. forever αἰῶνας (aiōnas) Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural Strong's 165: From the same as aei; properly, an age; by extension, perpetuity; by implication, the world; specially a Messianic period. [and] τῶν (tōn) Article - Genitive Masculine Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. ever. αἰώνων (aiōnōn) Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural Strong's 165: From the same as aei; properly, an age; by extension, perpetuity; by implication, the world; specially a Messianic period. Amen. ἀμήν (amēn) Hebrew Word Strong's 281: Of Hebrew origin; properly, firm, i.e. trustworthy; adverbially, surely. Links 1 Timothy 1:17 NIV1 Timothy 1:17 NLT 1 Timothy 1:17 ESV 1 Timothy 1:17 NASB 1 Timothy 1:17 KJV 1 Timothy 1:17 BibleApps.com 1 Timothy 1:17 Biblia Paralela 1 Timothy 1:17 Chinese Bible 1 Timothy 1:17 French Bible 1 Timothy 1:17 Catholic Bible NT Letters: 1 Timothy 1:17 Now to the King eternal immortal invisible (1 Tim. 1Ti iTi 1tim i Tm) |
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