2 Timothy 2:1-15

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Timothy 2:11-13

2:11-13 This is a saying which can be relied upon: If we die with him, we shall also live with him. If we endure, we shall also reign with him. If we deny him, he too will deny us. If we are faithless, he remains faithful For he cannot deny himself This is a peculiarly precious passage because in it is enshrined one of the first hymns of the Christian Church. In the days of persecution the Christian Church put its faith into song. It may be that this is only a fragment of a longer... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Timothy 2:14

2:14 Remind your people of these things; and charge them before the Lord not to engage in battles of words--a thing of no use at all, and a thing which can only result in the undoing of those who listen to it. Once again Paul returns to the inadequacy of words. We must remember that the Pastoral Epistles were written against a background of those Gnostics who produced their long words and their fantastic theories, and tried to make Christianity into a recondite philosophy instead of an... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Timothy 2:15-18

2:15-18 Put out every effort to present yourself to God as one who has stood the test, as a workman who has no need to be ashamed, as one who rightly handles the word of truth. Avoid these godless chatterings, for the people who engage in them only progress further and further into ungodliness, and their talk eats its way into the Church like an ulcerous gangrene. Amongst such people are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who, as far as the truth is concerned, have lost the way, when... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Timothy 2:15-18

Amongst the false teachers Paul numbers especially Hymenaeus and Philetus. Who these men were we do not know. But we get a brief glimpse of their teaching in at least one of its aspects. They said that the resurrection had already happened. This of course does not refer to the Resurrection of Jesus; it refers to the resurrection of the Christian after death. We do know two false views of the resurrection of the Christian which had some influence in the early Church. (i) It was claimed that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 2:1

Thou therefore, my son ,.... The illative particle, "therefore", shows the connection between this and the preceding chapter; the appellation, "thou, my son", expresses the apostle's tender affection for Timothy, and is the rather used to engage his attention to the advice he was about to give him; which is, that since he had received the true grace of God, and unfeigned faith dwelt in him; and since he had such gifts, qualifying him for the work of the ministry; and since so good a thing as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 2:2

And the things that thou hast heard of me ,.... Meaning the doctrines of the Gospel, the form of sound words. The Arabic version renders it, "the secrets, or mysteries that thou hast heard of me"; the mysteries of the grace of God, which he had often heard him discourse of, unfold and explain: among many witnesses ; or by them; which some understand of the testimonies out of Moses, and the prophets, with which the apostle confirmed what he delivered; for the doctrines of justification,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 2:3

Thou therefore endure hardness ,.... "Or afflictions"; as in 2 Timothy 4:5 . The same word is used there as here, and properly signifies, "suffer evil"; and means the evil of afflictions, as persecutions of every kind, loss of name and goods, scourging, imprisonment, and death itself, for the sake of Christ and the Gospel: as a good soldier of Jesus Christ . Christ is the Captain of salvation, the Leader and Commander of the people, who are made a willing people in the day of his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 2:4

No man that warreth ,.... Who is a soldier, and gives himself up to military service, in a literal sense: the Vulgate Latin version, without any authority, adds, "to God"; as if the apostle was speaking of a spiritual warfare; whereas he is illustrating a spiritual warfare by a corporeal one; and observes, that no one, that is in a military state, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; with civil affairs, in distinction from military ones. The Roman soldiers might not follow... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 2:5

And if a man also strive for masteries ,.... In the Olympic games, by running, wrestling, leaping, &c.; yet is he not crowned ; with a corruptible, fading crown, a crown made of herbs and leaves of trees, as parsley, laurel, &c.; except he strive lawfully ; according to the laws and rules fixed for those exercises; so no man that calls himself a Christian, minister, or any other, can expect the crown of life, the prize of the high calling of God, except he runs the race set... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 2:6

The husbandman that laboureth ,.... In manuring his ground, in ploughing, in sowing, in weeding, in reaping, &c.; must be first partaker of the fruits ; of his labour, before others; and the design may be to observe that the ministers of the word ought first to be partakers of the grace of God, the fruits of the Spirit, and of the Gospel, and rightly and spiritually understand it, before they preach it to others; or that such who labour in the word and doctrine, ought in the first... read more

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