2 Timothy 2:10

10. Therefore The commentators seem to miss the inference indicated by this connective. Bengel and Huther interpret it: The word of God is not bound, therefore I endure, etc. But Alford clearly shows that this is neither the inference nor a valid one. But Alford equally misses by making the therefore indicate a reason about to be given, namely, the elect’s sake.

But clearly therefore connects back with 2 Timothy 2:8, my gospel, as embracing the two memorable facts of the incarnation and resurrection. Christ was born and raised according to my irrepressible gospel, therefore do I endure all things for the elect’s sakes. And then he runs the antithesis of the born and raised, the incarnation and the exaltation, through every verse to 18. And thus 2 Timothy 2:8 is keynote to the whole paragraph, and 2 Timothy 2:9 is no interruption between 8 and 10.

For the elect’s sakes Those elect in consequence of faith; but whose future obtain the salvation is dependent upon the three ifs of the three following verses.