Godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.

Godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.

1 Tim 4:8

⁸ For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.

Eph 6:3

² “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— ³ “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”^[a]

Eph 3:3

² Surely you have heard about the administration of God’s grace that was given to me for you, ³ that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation, as I have already written briefly.

⁶ This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.

2 Tim 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, in keeping with the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus

Tit 1:3

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to further the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness— ² in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, ³ and which now at his appointed season he has brought to light through the preaching entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    Godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.

2)    “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—  “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”^[

3)    The mystery that revealed to Paul was that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.

4)    We have promise of life in Christ Jesus

5)    God has promised us eternal life