2 Timothy 2:5
What meaning of the 2 timothy 2:5 in the Bible?
What does 2 Timothy 2:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully."
What does 2 Timothy 2:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully."
Verse 5. _IF A MAN ALSO STRIVE FOR MASTERIES_] εαν δε και αθλη τις. _If a man contend in the public games_-the Olympic or Isthmian games among the Greeks, so often alluded to and particularly explaine...
AND IF A MAN ALSO STRIVE FOR MASTERIES - As in the Grecian games. See this favorite illustration of Paul explained in the notes at 1 Corinthians 9:24 ff. YET IS HE NOT CROWNED, EXCEPT HE STRIVE LAWFUL...
II. FAITH'S CONFLICT AND THE BELIEVER'S PATH CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The apostle's charge (2 Timothy 2:1)_ 2. As soldier and husbandman (2 Timothy 2:3) 3. Identification with Christ (2 Timothy 2:8) 4. Exh...
(_d_) 2 Timothy 2:1. THE APPEAL RENEWED. Thus enriched in his ordination, challenged by Paul's example, and warned by the Asian defection, Timothy, for all his work, must find continual strength in hi...
THE CHAIN OF TEACHING (2 Timothy 2:1-2)...
IF. App-118 A MAN. any one. App-123. ALSO STRIVE. strive also, STRIVE FOR MASTERIES. contend in the games. Greek. _athteo_. Only here. NOT. App-105. CROWNED. Greek. _stephanoo._ Only here and Heb...
Personal and Ministerial Zeal enforced by Parables from the life of the Soldier, the Athlete and the Farmer The Apostle resumes the main thread of exhortation to Christian courage. After its enforcem...
REPETITION OF CHARGE I. BE STRONG IN CHRIST’S STRENGTH...
ΆΘΛΉ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΆΘΛΈΩ (G118) участвовать в состязании. _Conj._ в _conj._ 3 типа, которое предполагает возможность или вероятность условия, ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΫ́ΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΣΤΕΦΑΝΌΩ (G...
IF A MAN ALSO STRIVE FOR MASTERIES,— _And if a man combat in the public games, he is not crowned, unless he has observed the rules prescribed._ Heylin. If, in the Grecian games, they contended accordi...
c. As an athlete 2 Timothy 2:5 _TEXT 2:5_ 5 And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully. _Thought Questions 2:5_ 74. Isn-'t there a rather abrupt...
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. AND, [ De (G1161)] - 'Moreover.' STRIVE FOR MASTERIES - in the great national games of Greece. YET IS...
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...
EXHORTATIONS TO FLRMNESS, UNCONTENTIOUSNESS, AND PERSEVERANCE 1-26. The duties of God's ministers are, (1) to maintain the faith against assailants and seducers (2 Timothy 2:1; 2 Timothy 2:14; 2 Timo...
HOW WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER TO DO GOD’S WORK 2 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 APPEAL TO BE STRONG AND TO SUFFER (2:1-13) V1 You then, my child, be strong with the help of Christ Jesus...
AND IF A MAN ALSO STRIVE FOR MASTERIES. — More accurately translated, _again, if a man strive in the games._ Another picture is drawn, and the picture is, as before, a well-known one to all the dwelle...
CHAPTER 30 THE CHRISTIAN'S LIFE AS MILITARY SERVICE; AS AN ATHLETIC CONTEST; AS HUSBANDRY. - 2 Timothy 2:3 ST. PAUL represents the Christian life and the Christian ministry under a variety of figures...
The condition of all success is toil; toil which may involve pain. Think of the price of a soldier's victory, the conditions of an athlete's crown, of a field-labourer's wage. Our Lord Jesus Himself,...
“A GOOD SOLDIER OF CHRIST JESUS” 2 Timothy 2:1 _ Soldier_, 2 Timothy 2:1: There is grace enough in Jesus for every need, but we must avail ourselves of it. We can expect nothing less than hardship,...
In order to fulfil the ideal revealed in the instructions, Timothy was charged to "be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." The apostle employed three figures of speech, the soldier, the...
DIFFERENT IMAGES OF A MINISTER'S LIFE If Timothy was to pass along the gospel, he would have to be prepared to suffer persecution, self denial and the onslaught of the enemy like a soldier on active d...
(3) And if a man also strive for masteries, [yet] is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. (3) The third admonition: the ministry is similar to a game in which men strive for the victory, and no...
(1) В¶ Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. (2) And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be ab...
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...
_SELF-MASTERY_ ‘If a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.’ 2 Timothy 2:5 Let me ask you in all earnestness whether you have seriously set before yourself...
5_And if any one strive _He now speaks of perseverance, that no man may think that he has done enough when he has been engaged in one or two conflicts. He borrows a comparison from wrestlers, not one...
The truth was the especial treasure committed to him; and he has not only to keep it, as we have seen, but to take care that it was propagated and communicated to others after him, and perhaps still f...
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,...
And if a man also strive for masteries, _yet_ is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. Ver. 5. _Except we strive lawfully_] _Tam circa ciborum quam continentiae ac honestatis rationem, _ saith C...
_Thou therefore endure hardness_ Κακοπαθησον, literally, _endure evil;_ that is, expect persecutions and various sufferings, and, by the powerful aids of divine grace, endure them with courage, consta...
LAWFULLY; according to the laws which, in the Grecian games to which the apostle alluded, governed those who sought the prize....
ADMONITION TO FAITHFULNESS IN THE MINISTRY....
If in chapter 1 we have seen the blessedness of God's abiding presence in His beloved saints - whatever may be the human failure everywhere - now in chapter 2, verses 1 to 13, there is a resulting con...
1-7 As our trials increase, we need to grow stronger in that which is good; our faith stronger, our resolution stronger, our love to God and Christ stronger. This is opposed to our being strong in ou...
And look as it is in the public games in use amongst you, where divers strive by wrestling, fighting, racing, where there is a crown proposed as the prize for those who are the conquerors in the game;...
Origen Against Celsus Book VIII For "no one will be crowned," unless here upon earth, with this body of humiliation, "he strive lawfully."[114] Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II For those...
2 Timothy 2:5 And G1161 also G2532 if G1437 anyone G5100 athletics G118 (G5725) is G4737 not G3756 crowned G4737 (G5743) unless G3362 competes G118 (G5661) rules G3545 strive - Luke 13:24; 1 Cori
2 Timothy 2:5. STRIVE FOR MASTERIES. St. Paul's habitual way of looking at the Christian life led him to pass naturally from the thought of the soldier to that of the athlete. We want some word to exp...
IF ALSO A MAN CONTEND IN THE GAMES (εαν δε κα αθλη τις). Condition of third class with present (linear) active subjunctive of αθλεω, old and common verb (from αθλος, a contest), only this verse in...
2 Timothy 1:1. _Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall...
CONTENTS: Walk of a good soldier of Christ in times of apostasy. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Timothy, David, Hymenaeus, Philetus, Satan. CONCLUSION: Those who have work to do for Christ must stir them...
2 Timothy 2:1. _Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus._ Be strong in the Lord, and in every virtue. This is chiefly repeated from Ephesians 6:10. 2 Timothy 2:3. _Endure hardness,_ or hardship...
UNLESS HE OBEYS THE RULES. An example from the games. After the race, those who had disobeyed the rules were disqualified. Compare 1 Corinthians 9:27 and note....
_Not crowned, except he strive lawfully._ LAWFUL STRIVING The athlete who competes in the games does not receive a crown, unless he has contended law fully,_ i.e._, according to rule (νομίμως νόμος...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 2:3. ENDURE HARDNESS.—R.V. “Suffer hardship with me.” Compare 2 Timothy 1:8, where the same word occurs. It would seem more consistent to refer the fellowsh...
EXPOSITION 2 TIMOTHY 2:1 _Child _for _son_, A.V.; _strengthened _for _strong, _A.V. BE STRENGTHENED (ἐνδυναμοῦ)_; _more exactly (as Huther), _become strong, _or, which is the same thing, _strengthe...
Ver. 5. _But_ (δὲ, introducing a fresh illustration Winer, _Gr_. § 53, 7, _b_; not only so, but there is this further case) _if any one also strive in the games_ another good rendering of Scholfield's...
Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace (2 Timothy 2:1) You see, it is legalism that is threatening the church. This idea that you can work yourself into divine favor. So "be strong in the gra...
1 Corinthians 9:24; 1 Peter 5:4; 2 Timothy 4:7; 2 Timothy 4:8; Colossians 1:29; Hebrews 12:4; Hebrews 2:7; Hebrews 2:9; James 1:12; Luke 13:24
Strive for masteries [α θ λ η]. N. T. o. o LXX Paul uses ajgwnizesqai (see 1 Corinthians 9:25), which appears also in 1 Timothy 4:10; 1 Timothy 6:12; 2 Timothy 4:7. For masteries is superfluous. Rev....
THE CHRISTIAN'S TITLES 2 Timothy 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We will discuss the seven distinctive names under which Paul addressed his son in the faith. As a prelude to these seven names, it might be h...