What does 2 Timothy 1:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;"
Verse 2 Timothy 1:3. _WHOM I SERVE FROM_ MY _FOREFATHERS_] Being born a _Jew_, I was carefully educated in the knowledge of the true God, and the proper manner of worshipping him. _WITH PURE CONSCIEN...
I THANK GOD, WHOM I SERVE FROM MY FOREFATHERS - Paul reckoned among his forefathers the patriarchs and the holy men of former times, as being of the same nation with himself, though it may be that he...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. PAUL'S PERSONAL WORD TO TIMOTHY CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Paul's affectionate words and confidence (2 Timothy 1:1)_ 2. Difficulties and assurance (2 Timothy 1:6) 3. Holding the f...
INTRODUCTORY SALUTATION (2 TIMOTHY 1:1 F.) AND THANKSGIVING (2 TIMOTHY 1:3). For the official form of salutation _cf._ 1 Timothy 1:1 f.* Moved by affectionate remembrance, Paul, thanks God for some r...
This is a letter from Paul, who was made an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and whose apostleship was designed to make known to all men God's promise of real life in Christ Jesus, to Timot...
THANK. See 1 Timothy 1:12. SERVE. App-190. FOREFATHERS. Greek. _progonos._ See 1 Timothy 5:4. WITH. in. Greek. _en._ WITHOUT CEASING. Greek. _adialeiptos._ See Romans 9:2. Compare Romans 1:9. REM...
_whom I serve … with pure conscience_ The verb -serve" with its noun -service" was specially used to render the worship of Jehovah by the covenant people; it is the same as in St Paul's profession bef...
ΘΕΩ͂Ι. D2*E* and some other authorities add μου, plainly from a reminiscence of Romans 1:8. 3. ΧΆΡΙΝ ἜΧΩ. see on 1 Timothy 1:12. The construction is not quite clear, but it seems best to take ὑπόμνησ...
ΈΧΩ _praes. ind. act._ (G2192) иметь, ΧΆΡΙΝ ΈΧ ΤΏ ΘΕ "я благодарю Бога" "я воздаю хвалу Богу". Это слово обозначает благодарность человека, который удостоился милости от своего благодетеля; в те врем...
_2 TIMOTHY 1:3_.— St. Paul,in what follows, seems to intimate that the Judaizers were not only ashamed of him in his present sufferings, but gloried over him; so far were they themselves from being wi...
PAUL'S GRATITUDE, 2 Timothy 1:3-5 _TEXT 1:3-5_ 3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers in a pure conscience, how unceasing is my remembrance of thee in my supplications, night and day 4 long...
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; I THANK, [ charin (G5485) echoo (G2192)] - 'I feel...
2 Timothy had been with the apostle in Rome, whence he was probably sent to Philippi (Php_2:19). The most loving and intimate relations existed between them, and Paul continually refers to him as his...
1:3 serve (b-8) _ Latreuo_ . see Matthew 4:10 ....
EXPRESSIONS OF AFFECTION AND EXHORTATIONS TO FAITHFULNESS 1, 2. Salutation. According to the promise of life] St. Paul declares himself appointed an Apostle with the view of his spreading the knowled...
HOW WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER TO DO GOD’S WORK 2 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THIS LETTER THE WRITER AND TO WHOM HE WROTE At the end of the book of Acts, the *apostle Paul was still in pri...
I THANK GOD. — The exact reference of these words of thankfulness on the part of St. Paul has been the subject of much argument. Although the sense is a little obscured by the long parenthesis which i...
χάριν ἔχω : The expression of thanksgiving in the exordium of an epistle is usually prefaced by St. Paul with εὐχαριστῶ (Romans 1:8; 1 Corinthians 1:4; Philippians 1:3; Philemon 1:4; εὐχαριστοῦμεν Col...
“STIR UP THE GIFT WHICH IS IN THEE” 2 Timothy 1:1 Lonely and facing death the Apostle fell back on the bedrock of the will of God. If it were the divine plan that he should finish his life-work in t...
The second letter to Timothy was written from prison. Paul, conscious of the evil existing in the Church, forecast the terrible days that were coming. He was conscious also of the grave responsibility...
TIMOTHY'S FAITH AND FAMILY HISTORY Paul served God, as his fathers had, with a pure, or clear conscience (Acts 23:1; Acts 24:16). The apostle's actions were always in accord with that which he believ...
(1) I thank God, whom I serve from [my] (b) forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; (1) The purpose that he aims at in this epis...
_Whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience. That is, have always served and worshipped the one true God, as my forefathers had done, which was true, even when he persecuted the Christian...
(1) В¶ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, (2) To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Fath...
Turning to the SECOND EPISTLE, we find that, although there is the same grand truth of the Saviour God maintained, the state of things had become sensibly worse, and the hour for the apostle's departu...
3_I give thanks _The meaning usually assigned to these words is, that Paul “gives thanks to God,” and next assigns the cause or ground of thanksgiving; namely, that he is unceasingly mindful of Timoth...
The Second Epistle to Timothy has a very peculiar character. It is the expression of his heart, who out side Palestine had, under God, founded and built the assembly of God on earth, and it was writte...
I THANK GOD,.... After the inscription and salutation follows the preface to the epistle; which contains a thanksgiving to God upon Timothy's account, and has a tendency to engage his attention to wha...
I thank God, whom I serve from _my_ forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; Ver. 3. _Whom I serve from my forefathers_] Those tw...
_Paul, an apostle by the will of God_ See 1 Corinthians 1:1; _according to the promise of life_ Appointed to exhibit, by preaching the gospel, and to bring men to, eternal life, promised by God to all...
FROM MY FOREFATHERS; as I have received from them, both by example and precept, the duty of living in all good conscience before God. Acts 23:1. True religion is in all ages the same. Pious ancestors...
I THANK GOD, WHOM I SERVE FROM MY FOREFATHERS WITH PURE CONSCIENCE, THAT WITHOUT CEASING I HAVE REMEMBRANCE OF THEE IN MY PRAYERS NIGHT AND DAY;...
Despite the fact of his heart being so drawn out in this epistle, Paul writes as "an apostle," not as a servant, nor even as a brother. Does this not stress the strongly authoritative character of tha...
1-5 The promise of eternal life to believers in Christ Jesus, is the leading subject of ministers who are employed according to the will of God. The blessings here named, are the best we can ask for o...
Paul here by his FOREFATHERS either intends his immediate parents, or Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for he served the same God whom they served. But how did Paul from his forefathers serve God _with pure...
Origen de Principiis Book II , that "on these two commandments hang the law and the prophets? "For how shall that which is strange and foreign to God depend upon Him? And when Paul says, "I thank my...
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2 Timothy 1:3. WHOM I SERVE FROM MY FOREFATHERS. The English word suggests more remote ancestors than were in St. Paul's thoughts. We have no word that precisely answers to the Greek, and are compelle...
I THANK (χαριν εχω). "I have gratitude." As in 1 Timothy 1:12. Robinson cites examples of this phrase from the papyri. It occurs also in Luke 17:9; Acts 2:47. Χαρις in doxologies Paul uses (1 Corint...
2 Timothy 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my dearly beloved son:_ There is the greatest possible affe...
CONTENTS: Apostolic greetings and exhortations to Timothy. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Timothy, Eunice, Phygelus, Hermogenes, Onesiphorus. CONCLUSION: The best of Christ's servants n...
2 Timothy 1:1. _Paul according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus._ On this promise of eternal life the whole system of revelation is built; for this cause Paul was made an apostle, that...
WHOM I SERVE WITH A CLEAR CONSCIENCE. The _circumcision party_ said Paul was a traitor to God because he preached the Good News to the Gentiles without forcing them to convert to Judaism. But Paul cou...
2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 1:3 Enduring for the Gospel. Paul’s thanksgiving (2 Timothy 1:3) leads to encouraging Timothy (2 Timothy 1:6; 2 Timothy 2:1). In between, he provides positive and negative...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 1:3. I THANK GOD.—We have here the purely classical form, which means “to entertain and show thankfulness.” WHOM I SERVE.—The idea in the word is that of pa...
EXPOSITION 2 TIMOTHY 1:1 _Christ Jesus _for _Jesus Christ, _A.V. and T.R.; _the life _for _life, _A.V. The life is a little clearer than _life, _as showing that "life" (not "promise") is the anteced...
Vers. 3-5. _I give thanks to God, whom I serve from my forefathers in a pure conscience._ The form of expression at the commencement, χάριν ἔχω occurs only once again in St. Paul's acknowledged epistl...
Shall we turn now to second Timothy? This is the last epistle that Paul wrote. He is again in prison in Rome. It would seem that he was released from the first imprisonment and allowed a little more t...
1 Thessalonians 1:2; 1 Thessalonians 1:3; 1 Thessalonians 3:10; 1 Timothy 1:19; 1 Timothy 1:5; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Timothy 1:5; 2 Timothy 3:15; Acts 22:3;...
I thank God [χ α ρ ι ν ε χ ω τ ω θ ε ω]. Lit. I have thanks to God. The phrase in Luke 17:9; Acts 2:47; o P. unless 2 Corinthians 1:15; 130 1 Timothy 1:12; Hebrews 12:28; 3rd John verse 4. Paul uses e...
SEVEN BIBLE MOTHERS 2 Timothy 1:1; _2 Timothy 3:13_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We are studying a theme today which should have in it much of value to every one of us; even the men and the young men love mo...
Whom I serve from my forefathers — That is, whom both I and my ancestors served. With a pure conscience — He always worshipped God according to his conscience, both before and after his conversion One...
But how could Paul, before conversion, be said to serve the God of his forefathers with. pure conscience, when he was. persecutor, and the chief of sinners? ANS. The meaning is, That he worshipped th...