Paul understood the importance of athletics in the lives of his contemporaries. Accordingly, he found it helpful to use athletic terms to define and contrast the difference between “physical training” and the need for believers to “train (themselves) in godliness.”
The heretical teachers were apparently extorting exorbitant amounts of money from the church using godliness for financial gain. Paul repudiated their activities but used the opportunity to show the great gain of “godliness with contentment.”
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