1 Timothy 2:6 NIV

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 2:6

Who gave himself a ransom for all ,.... What the Mediator gave as a ransom for men is "himself", his body and his soul, which were both made an offering for sin; and his life, which is the result of union between soul and body; his whole human nature as in union with his divine person, and so might be truly said to be himself: this he gave into the hands of men, of justice and of death; and that voluntarily, which shows his great love to his people; and also as a "ransom", or a ransom price... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 2:6

Who gave himself a ransom - The word λυτρον signifies a ransom paid for the redemption of a captive; and αντιλυτρον , the word used here, and applied to the death of Christ, signifies that ransom which consists in the exchange of one person for another, or the redemption of life by life; or, as Schleusner has expressed it in his translation of these words, Qui morte sua omnes liberavit a vitiositatis vi et poenis, a servitute quassi et miseria peccatorum . "He who by his death has... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 2:6

Verse 6 6Who gave himself a ransom for all (34) The mention of redemption in this passage is not superfluous; for there is a necessary connection between the two things, the sacrifice of the death of Christ, and his continual intercession. (Romans 8:34.) These are the two parts of his priesthood; for, when Christ is called our priest, it is in this sense, that he once made atonement for our sins by his death, that he might reconcile us to God; and now having entered into the sanctuary of... 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 2:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 2:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 2:6

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Timothy 2:1-15

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