Doctrine According to Godliness
congregation before him, but God Himself. This vertical reference point preserves doctrine from becoming a commodity to be marketed.
The Unified Standard These three characteristics—uncorruptness, gravity, and sincerity—form a unified standard for all biblical doctrine. Remove uncorruptness and you have falsehood. Remove gravity and you have triviality. Remove sincerity and you have hypocrisy. But when all three are present, doctrine appears in its beauty and power, as it was intended by God: a pure, weighty, and genuine revelation of His mind and will.
Doctrine According to Godliness Perhaps the most crucial relationship in the pastoral epistles is the link between doctrine and godliness. Paul speaks of "the doctrine which is according to godliness" in 1 Timothy 6:3. The preposition "according to" signifies conformity or correspondence. There is a doctrine that is in harmony with, consistent with, and productive of godliness. And there is teaching that is opposed to godliness.
The Greek word for godliness is eusebeia , which means "good worship" or "right reverence." It is not merely external moral behavior. It is the inner posture of reverent fear before God that then expresses itself in obedient