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In this section, Paul warned Timothy against people who were teaching false doctrines. They were teaching that believers should not marry and that there were certain kinds of food that they should not eat. Paul told Timothy several things that he should do to oppose the errors of the false teachers. For example:
He should teach correct doctrines (4:11).
He should be a good example to others (4:12b).
He should read aloud the Scriptures to encourage the believers to obey them (4:13b).
Paul wanted Timothy to continue to do these things and not become discouraged.
In this paragraph Paul told Timothy how to convince people to accept his teaching, even though he was young. He told Timothy to be a good example for the other believers (4:12b). He told him to read the Scriptures to people and to teach them (4:13b). He also told Timothy to use the gift that God had given him (4:14a). This gift was the ability that God had given him to teach and to lead other people. Paul also told Timothy to keep progressing spiritually (4:15c), and to persevere (4:16b).Adapted from Stott, pages 120–125.
Command and teach these things.
¶ Command and teach these things that I have written to the other believers.
these things: Paul was referring to the things that he had been writing about, especially in the previous paragraph (4:6–10).
People teach something and then command people to obey it. Therefore, in some languages it may be more logical to reverse the order of the verbs in this verse. You could say:
Teach the believers all these things that I have written and command them to obey them.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / extrainfo
ταῦτα
these_‹things›
Here, the phrase these things could refer to the instructions that Paul has given in [4:6–10](../04/06.md), [4:1–10](../04/01.md), or the whole letter so far. Since Paul used a general phrase, if possible you should use a general phrase that could refer to any of these sections. Alternate translation: [what I have said to you] or [these instructions]
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the CNTR.