Some Versions and Notes:
1 Timothy 1:4
(AFV) Nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which lead to empty speculations rather than to edification from God, which is in faith.
(ASV) neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; so do I now.
(CEV) You needed to warn them to stop wasting their time on senseless stories and endless lists of ancestors. Such things only cause arguments. They don't help anyone to do God's work that can only be done by faith.
(DRB) Not to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which furnish questions rather than the edification of God which is in faith.
(GW) and occupying themselves with myths and endless genealogies. These myths and genealogies raise a lot of questions rather than promoting God’s plan, which centers in faith.
(ISV) and occupying themselves with myths and endless genealogies. These things promote controversies rather than God's ongoing purpose, which involves faith.
(KJV) Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
(LEB) and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause useless speculations rather than God's plan that is by faith.
(LITV) nor to give heed to fables and to endless genealogies, which occasion doubts, rather than a stewardship of God in faith,
(LSV) nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than [the] stewardship of God which [is] in faith.
(Murdock) and not to throw themselves into fables and stories about genealogies, of which there is no end, which produce contention rather than edification in the faith of God.
(NENT) neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister to questionings, rather than God’s stewardship which is in faith; so now.
(NET) nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. Such things promote useless speculations rather than God’s redemptive plan that operates by faith.
(RV) neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, the which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; so do I now.
(UASV+) nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than God’s plan that is by faith.
(WEB) and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—
(WEBA) and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—
(Webster) Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith; so do.
(Weymouth) and the attention they bestow on mere fables and endless pedigrees, such as lead to controversy rather than to a true stewardship for God, which only exists where there is faith. And I make the same request now.
(Williams) to stop devoting themselves to myths and never-ending pedigrees, for such things lead to controversies rather than stimulate our trusteeship to God through faith.
(YLT) nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: —
oikonomia
9x: pr. the management of a household; a stewardship, Luk_16:2-4; in NT an apostolic stewardship, a ministerial commission in the publication and furtherance of the Gospel, 1Co_9:17; 1Co_3:2; Col_1:25; or, an arranged plan, a scheme, Eph_1:10; a due discharge of a commission, 1Ti_1:4, Eph_3:9.
oikonomia
oy-kon-om-ee'-ah
From G3623; administration (of a household or estate); specifically a (religious) “economy”: - dispensation, stewardship.
oikonomia
Thayer Definition:
1) the management of a household or of household affairs
1a) specifically, the management, oversight, administration, of other’s property
1b) the office of a manager or overseer, stewardship
1c) administration, dispensation
oikonomia
(G3622) primarily signifies "the management of a household or of household affairs" (oikos, "a house," nomos, "a law"); then the management or administration of the property of others, and so "a stewardship,"
VWS
Godly edifying
According to the reading οἰκοδομίαν edification. So Vulg. aedificationem. But the correct reading is οἰκονομίαν ordering or dispensation: the scheme or order of salvation devised and administered by God: God's household economy. Ὁικονομία is a Pauline word. With the exception of this instance, only in Paul and Luke.
JFB
godly edifying — The oldest manuscripts read, “the dispensation of God,” the Gospel dispensation of God towards man (1Co_9:17), “which is (has its element) in faith.” Conybeare translates, “The exercising of the stewardship of God” (1Co_9:17).
EWB
godly edifying = dispensation (Gn oikonomia, 1Co_9:17) of God (1Ti_1:1). A few texts read oikodome, as 1Co_14:3, 1Co_14:5, 1Co_14:12.
KJC
oikonomia
Total KJV Occurrences: 10
dispensation, 4
1Co_9:17, Eph_1:10, Eph_3:2, Col_1:25
steward, 3
Luk_16:3, Luk_16:8, Tit_1:7
stewardship, 3
Luk_16:2-4 (3)
