PAUL, AN APOSTLE OF JESUS CHRIST BY THE WILL OF GOD, ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE OF LIFE WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS TO TIMOTHY, MY DEARLY BELOVED SON: GRACE, MERCY, AND PEACE FROM GOD THE FATHER AND CHRIST JESUS, OUR LORD. It is a solemn address with which the apostle opens his letter: Paul, an apostle o... [ Continue Reading ]
I THANK GOD, WHOM I SERVE FROM MY FOREFATHERS WITH PURE CONSCIENCE, THAT WITHOUT CEASING I HAVE REMEMBRANCE OF THEE IN MY PRAYERS NIGHT AND DAY;... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL REMINDS TIMOTHY OF HIS EARLY TRAINING AND ITS OBLIGATIONS.... [ Continue Reading ]
GREATLY DESIRING TO SEE THEE, BEING MINDFUL OF THY TEARS, THAT I MAY BE FILLED WITH JOY;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN I CALL TO REMEMBRANCE THE UNFEIGNED FAITH THAT IS IN THEE, WHICH DWELT FIRST IN THY GRANDMOTHER LOIS AND THY MOTHER EUNICE, AND I AM PERSUADED THAT IN THEE ALSO.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE I PUT THEE IN REMEMBRANCE THAT THOU STIR UP THE GIFT OF GOD WHICH IS IN THEE BY THE PUTTING ON OF MY HANDS.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR, BUT OF POWER AND OF LOVE AND OF A SOUND MIND. Without further introduction the apostle broaches the matter that is filling his mind. His heart is full to overflowing, and the thoughts gush forth in the eager effort to find expression: Thanks I render to... [ Continue Reading ]
Be not thou, therefore, ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, His prisoner; but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel according to the power of God,... [ Continue Reading ]
AN ADMONITION TO STEADFASTNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO HATH SAVED US, AND CALLED US WITH AN HOLY CALLING, NOT ACCORDING TO OUR WORKS, BUT ACCORDING TO HIS OWN PURPOSE AND GRACE, WHICH WAS GIVEN US IN CHRIST JESUS BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN,... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOW IS MADE MANIFEST BY THE APPEARING OF OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, WHO HATH ABOLISHED DEATH, AND HATH BROUGHT LIFE AND IMMORTALITY TO LIGHT THROUGH THE GOSPEL;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREUNTO I AM APPOINTED A PREACHER AND AN APOSTLE AND A TEACHER OF THE GENTILES.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE WHICH CAUSE I ALSO SUFFER THESE THINGS. NEVERTHELESS I AM NOT ASHAMED; FOR I KNOW WHOM I HAVE BELIEVED, AND AM PERSUADED THAT HE IS ABLE TO KEEP THAT WHICH I HAVE COMMITTED UNTO HIM AGAINST THAT DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOLD FAST THE FORM OF SOUND WORDS WHICH THOU HAST HEARD OF ME, IN FAITH AND LOVE WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT GOOD THING WHICH WAS COMMITTED UNTO THEE KEEP BY THE HOLY GHOST, WHICH DWELLETH IN US. The knowledge of God's love in Christ Jesus and the gift of God's grace are the fundamental factors in the work of Timothy; they obligated him to show all staunchness in confessing Christ, in defending the fa... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS THOU KNOWEST, THAT ALL THEY WHICH ARE IN ASIA BE TURNED AWAY FROM ME; OF WHOM ARE PHYGELLUS AND HERMOGENES.... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL'S SORROWFUL AND CHEERFUL EXPERIENCES. 2 Timothy 1:15... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD GIVE MERCY UNTO THE HOUSE OF ONESIPHORUS; FOR HE OFT REFRESHED ME, AND WAS NOT ASHAMED OF MY CHAIN,... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT, WHEN HE WAS IN ROME, HE SOUGHT ME OUT VERY DILIGENTLY AND FOUND ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD GRANT UNTO HIM THAT HE MAY FIND MERCY OF THE LORD IN THAT DAY. AND IN HOW MANY THINGS HE MINISTERED UNTO ME AT EPHESUS THOU KNOWEST VERY WELL. These historical references are closely connected with the preceding section, in which Paul had emphasized the thought that Christians will gladly s... [ Continue Reading ]