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What daily physical exercises do you recommend?
What daily physical exercises do you recommend?
Thanks Dave1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things,
1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things,
Really these may not be needed if YHWH's directions can be accomplished:What daily physical exercises do you recommend?
Good comment,'Ysj'Really these may not be needed if YHWH's directions can be accomplished:
work six days a week
study(train) to work with your hands, dependent on no one.
Take care of others as needed, beginning with the brethren,
and .. well, that's a good start,
and results in being healthy usually.... blessed by YHWH in every way perhaps ? (when done by faith in Y'SHUA, relying ON HIM and TRUSTING IN HIM all the time).
I do not see that in the passage.The passage refers to forbidding and abstaining from certain physical indulgences, not physical exercise.
I do not see that in the passage.
'For physical training is of some value,but godliness has value for all things' (1 Tim.4:8) (NIV)
I do not see that in the passage.
Makes sense to exercise as necessary for the benefit of our health and to enjoy life,in a wholesome way,which is what Jesus wants us to do. Thankyou 'RDKirk' and friends.In Paul's day, ordinary people worked hard. Even a soldier's normal day was physically hard, just hauling around the 90 pounds of gear a Roman soldier carried.
"Physical training" would have been for those who dedicated their lives to sport--professional athletes--or the wealthy and indolent who were concentrating on looking good.
Of course in the West today that includes most of us (those who could as well as those who actually do).
I think the message for us today is not that we should eschew exercise, because lacking the daily physical exertion of normal people in Paul's day, we need to add physical training to be good stewards of our individual bodies and ensure the ability to serve the Body of Christ as long as we live.
But rather, that we should understand that even with the best exercise, our physical bodies will peak, then grow older, weaker, and eventually die. That's the "some value."
But our spirits--properly "exercised"-- continue to grow stronger and stronger and stronger throughout our lives, an upward slope with no peak. That's "value for all things."