What does 2 Timothy 4:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing."
2 TIMOTHY 4:8 pa/si Although copyists not infrequently added “all” in order to heighten the account, a majority of the Committee was of the opinion that in the present instance the word is too widel...
Verse 8. _HENCEFORTH THERE IS LAID UP FOR ME A CROWN_] This I can claim as my due; but the crown I expect is not one of _fading_ _leaves_, but a _crown of righteousness_; the reward which God, in his...
HENCEFORTH THERE IS LAID UP FOR ME - At the end of my race, as there was a crown in reserve for those who had successfully striven in the Grecian games; compare the notes on 1 Corinthians 9:25. The wo...
IV. THE LAST WORDS OF THE APOSTLE CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The last charge (2 Timothy 4:1)_ 2. His last testimony (2 Timothy 4:6) 3. The last personal messages (2 Timothy 4:9) 2 Timothy 4:1 This last chapt...
(_c_) 2 TIMOTHY 4:1. TIMOTHY'S DUTY IN THE CRISIS. Threatened with such opposition (2 Timothy 3:1) and strengthened by such safeguards (2 Timothy 3:10), Timothy must persistently teach the _positive t...
PAUL'S GROUNDS OF APPEAL (2 Timothy 4:1-5)...
LAID UP. Greek. _apokeimai._ See Colossians 1:5. A. the. RIGHTEOUSNESS. App-191. LORD. App-9. RIGHTEOUS. App-191. JUDGE, Compare 2 Timothy 4:1.Acts 17:3 Acts 17:1. GIVE. repay or recompense. Gre...
The last appeal. The same warning. The old example The three main thoughts (see 2 Timothy 3:1) recur, but with added intensity, in this last brief _appeal_, and _warning_, and _example_. Similarly in...
THE END OF THE APOSTLE’S COURSE...
ΛΟΙΠΌΝ (G3063) наконец. Adv. _асс._ ΆΠΌΚΕΊΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΆΠΌΚΕΙΜΑΙ (G606) быть отложенным (RWP). Это слово используется не только в контексте спортивного соревнования, но также было терми...
DISCOURSE: 2259 A CHRISTIAN’S DYING REFLECTIONS 2 Timothy 4:7. _I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousne...
HENCEFORTH THERE IS LAID UP FOR ME A CROWN. &C.— St. Paul here represents the great Judge, who had been witness to all his behaviour, with a crown in his hand, which he will bestow upon him as the rew...
PART THREE _Testimony 4:6-18_ 1. ASSURANCE IN THE FACE OF DEATH 2 Timothy 4:6-8 _TEXT 4:6-8_ 6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure is come. 7 I have fought the good fight...
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. A C...
12 This is a crucial test of our true state. Are we suffering persecution? If not, are we in earnest in our will to live devoutly in Christ Jesus? All who tread this path will be persecuted. Paul hims...
4:8 Henceforth (h-1) 'Henceforth,' with the sense of 'This being finished, there remains consequently.'...
ST. PAUL'S LAST MESSAGES AND COUNSELS 1-8. The Apostle, knowing that his days are fast drawing to a close, exhorts Timothy to increased diligence and earnestness in his teaching, in view of the immin...
HOW WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER TO DO GOD’S WORK 2 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 *PREACH THE *GOSPEL AND TEACH THE TRUTH (4:1-5) V1 This command I give to you with God and the *Lord Jesus...
A CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. — More accurately rendered, _the crown of righteousness._ St. Paul, after speaking calmly of death, the bitterness of which he was already tasting, looks on beyond death, and...
CHAPTER 35 THE PARADOXICAL EXULTATION OF THE APOSTLE-HIS APPARENT FAILURE AND THE APPARENT FAILURE OF THE CHURCH-THE GREAT TEST OF SINCERITY. - 2 Timothy 4:5 ST. CHRYSOSTOM tells us that this passage...
I solemnly charge you, in view of the coming judgment, to be zealous in the exercise of your ministry while the opportunity lasts, while people are willing to listen to your admonitions. Soon the craz...
THE VICTOR'S FINAL CHARGE 2 Timothy 4:1 To the end Paul held to the appearing of Jesus, though he might not live to see it; and it was to precede and usher in the coming of the Kingdom. The world of...
As the result of these charges, the apostle shows what Timothy's attitude must be toward those over whom he has oversight. There are four things which he must do. "Preach the Word," "reprove," "rebuke...
PAUL'S FAREWELL ADDRESS As Paul saw the end of his life approaching, he said, “For I am already being poured out as a drink offering,” which is an allusion to the drink offering poured out on the alt...
_A crown of justice, which the Lord, the just judge, will render to me. These words confirm the Catholic doctrine, that good works performed with the assistance of God's grace, deserve and are meritor...
(6) For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. (7) I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: (8) Henceforth there is laid up for me...
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...
_THE LOVE OF CHRIST’S APPEARING_ ‘And not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing.’ 2 Timothy 4:8 The ‘love of Christ’s appearing’ is not a simple idea, but one composed of many...
8_Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness _Having boasted of having fought his fight and finished his course, and kept the faith, he now affirms that he has not labored in vain....
Does this perfect and supreme authority of the scriptures set aside ministry ? By no means; it is the foundation of the ministry of the word. One is a minister of the word; one proclaims the word rest...
HENCEFORTH THERE IS LAID UP FOR ME A CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... The happiness of the future state of the saints is signified by a crown, on account of the glory and excellency of it; and in perfect a...
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. Ver. 8...
_But watch thou_ Both over thyself and flock, and withstand the beginnings of all these corruptions; let thy mind be awake and watchful; _in all things_ Whatever thou art doing, let this be thy earnes...
To the faithful minister, the close is the most joyful period of life. Evils, natural and moral, are behind, and all before is blessedness and glory....
PAUL'S FIGHT AND VICTORY....
The apostle writes this last chapter with a deepening sense in his soul of the nearness of his martyrdom; and it is most precious to observe how the solemnity of his charge to Timothy is mingled with...
6-8 The blood of the martyrs, though not a sacrifice of atonement, yet was a sacrifice of acknowledgment to the grace of God and his truth. Death to a good man, is his release from the imprisonment of...
OLBGrk; HENCEFORTH THERE IS LAID UP FOR ME; as to what remains for me, (so the word loipon signifies, not _henceforth, _ as we translate it), there is prepared, and in safe keeping for me, COLOSSIANS...
Tertullian De Corona , too, the good fight, whose crown the apostle[63] Tertullian Of Patience And if he had wished to have his children also restored, he might again have been called father; but h...
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2 Timothy 4:8. A CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. Better, ‘ _the_ crown.' The force of the genitive may be either that perfect righteousness constitutes the crown, as ‘glory' in 1 Peter 5:4, and ‘life' in Jame...
HENCEFORTH (λοιπον). Accusative case, "for the rest."THERE IS LAID UP FOR ME (αποκειτα μο). Present passive of αποκειμα, old verb, to be laid away. See Colossians 1:5 for the hope laid away. Paul...
RIGHTEOUSNESS (_ See Scofield) - (1 John 3:7). _...
2 Timothy 4:1. _I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; preach the word;_ We are not to use such strong...
CONTENTS: Christ's faithful servant and the faithfulness of Christ to His own. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Demas, Timothy, Luke, Mark, Tychicus, Carpus, Alexander, Prisca, Aquila, Onesiphorus, Era...
2 Timothy 4:1. _I charge thee therefore before God preach the word._ Paul speaks here as a dying man, soon to appear before the throne of God and the Lamb. Soldiers must not sleep in war without a wat...
AND NOW. "All fears of death vanish when I think of the reward which God has for me!" THE CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. This also is from the Games where the winners received a crown of leaves as the symbol...
2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 4:8 CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. One interpretation is that this means “the crown that consists of righteousness,” referring to the final righteous state of believers. Another i...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 4:6. FOR I AM NOW READY TO BE OFFERED.—R.V. “I am already being offered.” R.V. margin, “poured out as a drink-offering.” When the gaoler took the cup of hem...
EXPOSITION 2 TIMOTHY 4:1 _In the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus _for _therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, _A.V. and T.R.; _and by _for _at, _A.V. and T.R. I CHARGE THEE (διαμαρτύρομαι...
Ver. 8. _Henceforth_ (λοιπὸν, _quod reliquum est_, Beza) _there is laid up_ (or aside, ἀπόκειταί, reserved) _for me the crown of righteousness;_ not _a_ crown merely, but _the_ crown that which is ass...
Paul said to Timothy, I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ (2 Timothy 4:1), Hey, that's heavy duty, man, when you charge a person before God and before the Lord Jesus Christ. Laying a...
1 Corinthians 2:9; 1 Corinthians 9:25; 1 Peter 5:4; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:4; 1 Timothy 6:19; 2 Corinthians 5:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:5;...
Henceforth [λ ο ι π ο ν]. Lit. as to what remains. Loipon or to loipon either finally, as 2 Corinthians 13:11; or henceforth as here, Mark 14:41; 1 Corinthians 7:29; Hebrews 10:13 : or for the rest, b...
LIFE'S BACKWARD AND FORWARD LOOK 2 Timothy 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. There is a time when we should not look backward. (1) We should not look back with a heart of longing after the fleshpots of Eg...
The crown of that righteousness — Which God has imputed to me and wrought in me. Will render to all — This increases the joy of Paul, and encourages Timotheus. Many of these St. Paul himself had gaine...