Why not baptize at once every soul around? Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. Resurrection is the form and character of the lowest blessings of which Jesus is the dispenser; much more is He risen to exalt God in the highest. Timothy had been schooled in the Scriptures from his early youth by his mother and grandmother, and so as Paul began to, with the Scriptures, prove that Jesus was the Messiah, with Timothy's background, he could see the truth of it. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. Includes questions, verse by verse commentary, and applications on 2 Timothy 1 for life transformation. Rather he must "labour before he partake of the fruits." God wants you to be complete. It is not the question of discipline dealing With evil ways; but here we are in a state of things where we are in danger of being mixed up with vessels unto the Lord's dishonour. The page number in Thayer is given, and the column on the page follows the hyphens. 1. It would not be accordant with the mind of God. The Greek word literally is fully matured or of full age, fully matured, that the man of God might be fully matured.
2 Timothy 3 - Clarke's Commentary - StudyLight.org ' according to godliness, 1 Timothy 6:3; Titus 1:1; and in all godliness, 1 Timothy 2:2. But let him not infer, therefore, that he is to be enrolled among the martyrs, and that he is certainly a real Christian. The disorder might be so great that we might make mistakes in our anxiety; but "The Lord knoweth them that are his."
2 Timothy 3:2 Commentaries: For men will be lovers of self, lovers of "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life" (he must be unencumbered, and undivided in his object); "that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. The man who is anosios ( G462) offends against the fundamental decencies of life. (ii) The Scriptures are of use in teaching. You have no authority.So if I tell you that some scriptures are not really inspired of God, then I become the authority, not the Bible anymore, because you can't just read the whole Bible and trust it because not all of it is inspired. Paul's life: one of longsuffering, one of love and one of patience. Description of His Past Curriculum 2 Timothy 3:10-12. That the man of God may be perfect ( 2 Timothy 3:17 ). Now I'm not about to say God was wrong. He would not have him to be spreading doubtful opinions; but what he had heard from the apostle himself he need not scruple to give out freely. This was to touch the right chord in his heart. As I read the things that are happening in our modern-cultured Orange County, as I read the reports from the social department on the child abuse, I just shake my head in disbelief because a person could not possibly do these things unless they were without natural affection. The age of children is the learning age; and those who would get true learning must get it out of the scriptures. ". If, in any manner, or in any way, he is subjected to disadvantage on account of his religious opinions, and deprived of any immunities and rights to which he would be otherwise entitled, this is persecution. "Men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God." And in the end they shall perish together with them." Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands: Many men and women, who would never dream of stealing, think nothing--even find pleasure--in passing on a story which ruins someone else's good name, without even trying to find out whether or not it is true. At this particular time in the ordinary matters of politics one of the curses of Rome was the existence of informers (delatores, compare G1213) . As Timothy was about to enter upon a new phase of his ministry, without the apostle's presence or living counsel, the latter charges him with great emphasis, "before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; preach the word, be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine." "All scripture is given by inspiration of God. And may not their freedom from it prove that they have surrendered the principles of their religion, where they should have stood firm, though the world were arrayed against them? 1 Paul, a an apostle of Christ Jesus b by the will of God according to c the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,.
Introduction; 2 Timothy 1 Commentary; Pride always begets insult.
What does 2 Timothy 3:13 mean? | BibleRef.com But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived ( 2 Timothy 3:13 ). And there's such a complete, total absence of love. The result would often be either that the woman broke off married relationships with her husband in order to live the ascetic life, or that she gave the lower instincts full play and abandoned herself to promiscuous relationships. III. Whatever therefore may be right in certain cases, the assembly of God ought never to be forced to put every case on the same dead level ought never to be bound by any special process, as if it were unalterable. But the condition of the believers had deteriorated. If they contradict the teaching of the Bible, they are to be refused. But let not a man who will do this, suppose that he has any claim to be numbered among the martyrs, or even entitled to the Christian name. First, there are the duties of an apostle. They must expect to be despised, and that their religion will stand in the way of their preferment; those who will live godly must expect it, especially those who will live godly in Christ Jesus, that is, according to the strict rules of the Christian religion, those who will wear the livery and bear the name of the crucified Redeemer. It is perfectly true--as we have so often said--that Christianity is not founded on a printed book but on a living person. In Brazil Signor Antonio of Minas bought a New Testament which he took home to burn. She had never tried the Bible, for a friend had convinced her by subtle arguments that it could not be true. Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics, 7: 2) defined the alazon ( G213) as "the man who pretends to creditable qualities that he does not possess, or possesses in a lesser degree than he makes out." In fact, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 2 Timothy 3:12 Context. Men will be lovers of their own selves ( 2 Timothy 3:2 ). The task of the apostle is not only to tell men the truth; it is also to help them do it. Others must do that kind of work in future. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1930. Then the apostle puts before them a blessed model of that which he had before his own soul. "Perilous times shall come."
Persecution is Every Christian's Lot - 2 Timothy 3:12 Thus the apostle comes to the close of his ministry, and touches upon the line of St. John. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: they are men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith ( 2 Timothy 3:8 ). Persons sometimes say it does not matter who taught; but God does not treat the matter so lightly. Confrontation and conflict become inevitable (cf. At Ephesus some of the greatest roads in the world met. THE DUTIES AND THE QUALITIES OF AN APOSTLE ( 2 Timothy 3:10-13 ). Observe, Timothy must continue in the things which he had learned and had been assured of. Fear and timidity will keep us from using the gifts God gives. There is a type of person who is eager to discuss every new theory, who is always to be found deeply involved in the latest fashionable religious movement, but who is quite unwilling to accept the day-to-day discipline--even drudgery--of living the Christian life. And the word perfect of course is always that of completeness. that will, &c.Greek, "all whose will is to live," &c. So far should persecution be from being a stumbling-block to Timothy, he should consider it a mark of the pious. To the Greek it was anosios ( G462) to refuse burial to the dead; it was anosios ( G462) for a brother to marry a sister, or a son a mother. But the apostle remembered it all, felt deeply for if not with him, and greatly desiring to see him once more. There is a sense in which slander is the most cruel of all sins. THE QUALITIES OF GODLESSNESS ( 2 Timothy 3:2-5 continued). We usually try to avoid it on Friday evening if we can, but sometimes our schedules are such that we just don't have time to. "He kicked the world about," said one, "as if it had been a football." turned unto fables. Christianity was cradled in Judaism and very naturally thought largely in Jewish terms and pictures. Deliberately he lit it. The study of the Scriptures trains a man in righteousness until he is equipped for every good work. It is the sign of a supremely decadent civilization when youth loses all respect for age and fails to recognize the unpayable debt and the basic duty it owes to those who gave it life. Jesus said, "You do search the scriptures: because in them you think you have life; but actually, they are testifying of me" ( John 5:39 ). "But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. In 2 Timothy 3:13 he meant that evil becomes more intensive as time goes on. These things may be expected in the best times, and under the most favorable circumstances; and it is known that a large part of the history of the world, in its relation to the church, is nothing more than a history of persecution. Next he comes to a more personal need. The Holy Spirit would make it to be most practical and precious. This may be either an injury done to his feelings, his family, his reputation, his property, his liberty, his influence; it may be by depriving him of an office which he held, or preventing him from obtaining one to which he is eligible; it may be by subjecting him to fine or imprisonment, to banishment, torture, or death. I mean, people will have had it with the unrighteousness of the world. When a man's language becomes filthy, obscene and crude, it shows that there's something wrong with him. The reason is manifest: they themselves savour of the things of men, and not of God. We're going to drown in our own corruption. (8) Using the boldness God gives, don't be ashamed of the imprisoned apostle. He did not pull down by his living what he built up by his preaching. So the Greek word that is used here to describe these that are going around, leading captive the silly women, is the same Greek word that was used to describe quackery, and that's probably they're quacks, Paul is saying. And so Paul, you know, how I've lived; my faith, my longsuffering, my love, my patience, and the persecutions and afflictions that came to me. It is a divine revelation, which we may depend upon as infallibly true. There is training. Perverse Men 2 Timothy 3:2-4 . It has been pointed out that the writer of Revelation may well have been thinking of Ephesus when he wrote that haunting passage which describes the merchandise of men: "The cargo of gold, silver, jewels and pearls, fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet, all kinds of scented wood, all articles of ivory, all articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble, cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls" ( Revelation 18:12-13). There might be a mixture of timid shrinking from pain and shame. John 15:19; Matthew 10:22; Matthew 10:38-39, Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus,. All that live according to the will of God revealed in his word; and to the glory of God, as the end of all their actions; and which the grace of God in the Gospel, and in their own hearts, teaches them; and who have the principles of a godly life from Christ, and derive the fresh supplies of grace and life from him, to maintain it; in whom their life is hid, and who live by faith upon him; all such that live, and that will live so, are desirous of living after this manner; in whom God has wrought in them both to will and to do, and are concerned when it is otherwise with them: these. This was to reverse the lesson of a risen Christ, and to open the way for all laxity. " Rejoice ( present imperative) and be glad ( present imperative ), for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. There was a state of things coming when it would be impossible to have local charges chosen according to the full sanction which they had in apostolic days. And may not their freedom from it prove that they have surrendered the principles of their religion, where they should have stood firm, though the world were arrayed against them? And a less confession than this God never permitted the church to accept; nor in fact in Jerusalem itself was less ever accepted than the naming the name of the Lord. Quite a promise, isn't it? This again has stumbled the minds of men. "Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:12 - Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse Rather they are minimum requirements that otherwise suitable people must fulfil if the church is to recognize them as elders or deacons. "It denotes living in the right attitude to God and to things divine. What am I to believe about angels or the future? Perilous Times 2 Timothy 3:1. It is no accident that the first of these qualities will be a life that is centred in self.
2 Timothy 3:12-13 Commentary | Precept Austin That is, it is not enough that I should walk with the Lord individually, but I must clear myself of association with that which is contrary to His name. You may be able to deceive people for a while, but ultimately, it's going to catch up, even as it did with Jannes. That the scripture has various uses, and answers divers ends and purposes: It is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction of all errors in judgment and practice, and for instruction in righteousness. They appear to think that if you hold life in Christ to be the one thing that is most precious, to be the prize that your heart reverts to, all owning of anything short of this would be out of place; but it is exactly the contrary. We have already seen that that teaching issued in one of two things. Whose will is to live, or who are bent on living. Note, It is not enough to learn that which is good, but we must continue in it, and persevere in it unto the end. "Every scripture" for this is the proper force of the passage "Every scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.". Seeking the Gospel in Malachi, the Last Book of the Old Testament. Now this is in particular a difficulty for saints, when they have revived before the soul the blessedness of maintaining the unity of the Spirit. It was thus Paul treated the proud reasonings and speculations of man; withal briefly touching on those that had gone entirely astray Hymenaeus and Philetus. Verse 2 Timothy 3:1. O that we may love our Bibles more, and keep closer to them than ever! He is now looking at the state of disorder in the house of God, instead of contemplating it in its public integrity, as in the first epistle. A man may embrace some absurd opinion, and call it religion; he may adopt some mode of dress irresistibly ludicrous, from the mere love of singularity, and may call it conscience; or he may be boorish in his manners, and uncivil in his deportment, outraging all the laws of social life, and may call this deadness to the world; and for these, and similar things, he may be contemned, ridiculed, and despised. Truth and holiness and endurance are wanted, not authority or outward order. Those ministers are likely to do good, and leave lasting fruits of their labours, whose manner of life agrees with their doctrine; as, on the contrary, those cannot expect to profit the people at all that preach well and live ill. 3. I don't know exactly yet what He said but when I find out I know He's going to be right. That persecution which will properly furnish any evidence that we are the friends of Christ, must be only that which is "for righteousness sake" Matthew 5:10, and must be brought upon us in an honest effort to obey the commands of God. And you will find as God's word becomes a very part of your life and you begin to be guided by the word of God, that God will begin to use you in very exciting ways. Now, it is doubtless as true as it ever was, that a man who will live as the Saviour did, will, like him, be subjected to some such injury or disadvantage. This was always the becoming tone; but now it is imperiously necessary, as well as wise and good. There are those who shrink from helping on others in order to the work and doctrine of the Lord. If a man's goods are stolen, he can set to and build up his fortunes again; but if his good name is taken away, irreparable damage has been done. They should remember that, in this respect, they are treated as the Master was, and are in the goodly company of the prophets, apostles, and martyrs; for they were all persecuted. 2 Timothy 3 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. This he had known most extensively, but it was closed; no longer had he before him any prospect of having to fight the battles of the church of God. shall suffer persecution; it is the will of God, and the appointment of heaven; Christ has foretold it, that so it shall be; and he the head has suffered it himself, and it is necessary that his members should, that they may be conformed unto him; it is the way Christ himself went to glory, and through many tribulations his people must enter the kingdom; and this is the common lot and certain case of all the saints, in one shape or another; for though all do not suffer confiscation of goods, beating, scourging, imprisonment, or a violent death; yet all are more or less afflicted and distressed by wicked men, and are subject to their reproaches and revilings, which are a branch of persecution; and that for professing Christ, and living a godly life in him and under his influence: and since such suffer as Christians, and not as evildoers; and this is the common condition of the people of God, in this world, it should not be thought strange, but be cheerfully endured; to encourage to which is the apostle's view in this passage. For "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks" ( Matthew 12:34 ). On account of his opinions, he may be held up to ridicule, or treated with neglect, or excluded from society to which his attainments and manners would otherwise introduce him, or shunned by those who might otherwise value his friendship. For he does not say Jesus Christ simply in. "To Timothy, my dearly-beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. "In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. And this, I believe, is much to be considered. That the man of God may be perfect,2 Timothy 3:17; 2 Timothy 3:17. Observe, (1.) [Note: Knight, p. Such is the perversity of sin. These twin qualities of the braggart and the arrogant man inevitably result in love of insult (blasphemia, G988) . He brings out the infinite value of the Scriptures, that is of what was written, the one transcendent resource for perilous times when we have not the presence and personal help of apostles. They will refuse to recognize the debt they owe both to God and to men. It's twelve thousand miles a second, but that's pretty fast, too. That is why the church which has no Bible Class is a church in whose work an essential element is missing. All that will live godly So opposite to the spirit and practice of the world is the whole of Christianity, that he who gives himself entirely up to God, making the Holy Scriptures the rule of his words and actions, will be less or more reviled and persecuted. "Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. (2) They who are persecuted for their opinions, should consider that this may be one evidence that they have the spirit of Christ, and are his true friends. We live in a fallen world, and there are many challenges that face the believer who has not only trusted Christ for salvation, but is also ready and willing to deny self, take up his cross, follow Christs example, and say without compromise Thy will, not mine, be done.The newbornbaby Christian has to grow in grace and mature in the faith over an unspecified periodof time, to reach this level of maturity in his faith, while other who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ may slip in and out of carnality and worldliness for many years, stunting their growth and even regressing in their faith back to spiritual infancy.Many, if not all believers, are called to become mature in the faith by walking in spirit and truth and living godly, Christ-centred lives, but few are willing to exchange the cosy blessings of early Christian infancy, for the difficulties that inevitably follow the mature believer. But thou hast fully known ( 2 Timothy 3:10 ), Now in contrast to this, boy, and what a contrast the Christian is to the world around him, and more and more, you know, more and more your lifestyle is different from the world. Vincente Quiroga of Chile found a few pages of a book washed up on the seashore by a tidal wave following an earthquake. But, says the apostle, "be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." "I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. Marks of Perilous Times; Excellence of the Scriptures. It will be getting better a little further down the road, but evil days are going to wax worse and worse, until the Lord takes His church out and then God judges the world for its unrighteousness and ungodliness. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. 10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. 3:14-17 But as for you, remain loyal to the things which you have learned, and in which your belief has been confirmed, for you know from whom you learned them, and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that will bring you salvation through the faith which is in Christ Jesus. It can sometimes have the meaning of loyalty, or true religion. Indeed, all who want to live in a godly way in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. It is the normal Greek word for difficult, but it has certain usage's which explain its meaning here. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1977. For, if we do not believe their truth and goodness, they will do us no good. You know, I mean, talk about lovers of selves, look at the advertising. But now before his heart just as in principle before the dying Lord Himself, wonderful to say two things come together: a deeper sense of what is in God, as revealed in Christ Himself, before there was any creation at all; and on the other hand so much the deeper sense also of what could be owned in nature. Wow, watch out now because Jesus bought it. If what be claims for scripture is true of the Old Testament, how much truer it is of the still more precious words of the New. Irenaeus draws a vivid picture of the methods of just such a teacher in his day. The Greek word is that men will become anosios ( G462) .
2 Timothy 3:12 - Bible Hub Matthew 10:22-23; Luke 21:12; John 15:20; Acts 14:22; 1 Thessalonians 3:4).
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