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1 Timothy 4:8

For bodily exercise profits for a little while: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Some think St. Paul alludes in this verse to the corporal exercises of wrestlers, which procured them but a little short renown, whereas the works of piety have a more lasting reward. (Menochius; Tirinus) Corporal exercises of temperance, mortification are good, but not to be compared with the spiritual virtues of charity, piety (St. Bernard)

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