1 Timothy 2:5 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Timothy 2:1-8

Here is, I. A charge given to Christians to pray for all men in general, and particularly for all in authority. Timothy must take care that this be done. Paul does not send him any prescribed form of prayer, as we have reason to think he would if he had intended that ministers should be tied to that way of praying; but, in general, that they should make supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks: supplications for the averting of evil, prayers for the obtaining of good,... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 2:1-7

2:1-7 So then the first thing I urge you to do is to offer your requests, your prayers, your petitions, your thanksgivings for all men. Pray for kings and for all who are in authority, that they may enjoy a life that is tranquil and undisturbed, and that they may act in all godliness and reverence. That is the fine way to live, the way which meets with the approval of God, our Saviour, who wishes all men to be saved, and to come to a full knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 2:1-7

Four different words for prayer are grouped together. It is true that they are not to be sharply distinguished; nevertheless each has something to tell us of the way of prayer. (i) The first is deesis ( Greek #1162 ), which we have translated request. It is not exclusively a religious word; it can be used of a request made either to a fellow-man or to God. But its fundamental idea is a sense of need. No one will make a request unless a sense of need has already wakened a desire. Prayer... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 2:1-7

This passage distinctly commands prayer for kings and emperors and all who are set in authority. This was a cardinal principle of communal Christian prayer. Emperors might be persecutors and those in authority might be determined to stamp out Christianity. But the Christian Church never, even in the times of bitterest persecution, ceased to pray for them. It is extraordinary to trace how all through its early days, those days of bitter persecution, the Church regarded it as an absolute duty... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 2:1-7

The Church prayed for certain things for those in authority. (i) It prayed for "a life that is tranquil and undisturbed." That was the prayer for freedom from war, from rebellion and from anything which would disturb the peace of the realm. That is the good citizen's prayer for his country. (ii) But the Church prayed for much more than that. It prayed for "a life that is lived in godliness and reverence." Here we are confronted with two great words which are keynotes of the Pastoral... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 2:1-7

Paul concludes with a statement of the greatest truths of the Christian faith. (i) There is one God. We are not living in a world such as the Gnostics produced with their theories of two gods, hostile to each other. We are not living in a world such as the heathen produced with their horde of gods, often in competition with one another. Missionaries tell us that one of the greatest reliefs which Christianity brings to the heathen is the conviction that there is only one God. They live for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 2:5

For there is one God ,.... This does not so much regard the unity of God, with respect to himself, or his divine essence, though that is a truth; but does not carry in it any apparent and forcible reason why all men should be prayed for, for which it is produced; but the unity of God with respect to men, as that there is but one God, who is the Creator of all men, and who, in a providential way, is the Saviour of all men; and in a way of special grace is the one God, the one covenant God of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 2:5

There is one God - Who is the maker, governor, and preserver of all men, of every condition, and of every nation, and equally wills the salvation of all. And one mediator - The word μεσιτης , mediator, signifies, literally, a middle person, one whose office it is to reconcile two parties at enmity; and hence Suidas explains it by ειρηνοποιος , a peace-maker. God was offended with the crimes of men; to restore them to his peace, Jesus Christ was incarnated; and being God and man, both... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 2:5

Verse 5 5For there is one God This argument might, at first sight, appear to be not very strong, that God wishes all men to be saved, because he is one; if a transition had not been made from God to men. Chrysostom — and, after him, others — view it in this sense, that there are not many gods, as idolaters imagine. But I think that Paul’s design was different, and that there is here an implied comparison of one God with the whole world and with various nations, out of which comparison arises a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Timothy 2:1-15

The whole chapter is given up to directions concerning the public worship of the Church. We may notice the following particulars. I. THE SUBJECTS OF PUBLIC PRAYER . When the Church meets together in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, it meets as pre-eminently the friend of the human race. As the Church of him who is the world's Savior and Redeemer, it must manifest the same spirit of universal love which animated him. It is not as being haters of the human race (as their enemies... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Timothy 2:1-8

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 2:1-7

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 2:1-7

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 2:1-7

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 2:1-7

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 2:1-7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 2:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 2:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 2:5

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Timothy 2:1-15

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