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1 Timothy 2:2
for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Verse 1 Timothy 2:2. _FOR KINGS_] As it is a positive maxim of Christianity to pray for all secular governors, so it has ever been the practice of Christians. When _St. Cyprian_ defended himself befo...
FOR KINGS - On the respect due to rulers, see the notes on Romans 13:1. The meaning here is, that while all people should be the subjects of prayer, those should be particularly remembered before the...
II. CONCERNING PRAYER CHAPTER 2 __ 1. Prayer for all men and for those in authority (1 Timothy 2:1) 2. The place for the man and the woman (1 Timothy 2:8) 1 Timothy 2:1 Instructions ar
1 Timothy 2:1 to 1 Timothy 3:16. THE CHARGE RESPECTING CHURCH REGULATIONS. (_a_) 1 Timothy 2:1. PUBLIC WORSHIP. 1 Ti
THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE GOSPEL (1 Timothy 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...
IN. App-104. AUTHORITY. Greek. _huperoche_. See 1 Corinthians 2:1. THAT. in ORDER THAT. Greek. _hina._ LEAD. Greek. _diago_, Only here and Titus 3:3. QUIET. Gt. _eremos_. Only here. PEACEABLE. Gr...
_in authority_ R.V. IN HIGH PLACE. The noun occurs only 1 Corinthians 2:1, -I came not _with excellency_of speech," but the participle in Romans 13:1, -the _higher_powers." Though there is no special...
ὙΠῈΡ ΒΑΣΙΛἙΩΝ, ‘_for kings_’; not ‘for _the_ kings,’ as Baur interpreted, finding here a reason for placing the Epistle in the time of the Antonines, when two emperors shared the throne. The practice,...
ΥΠΕΡΟΧΉ (G5247) _dat. sing._ выдающееся положение, авторитет, относится к начальству любого рода. Это слово в эллинистическом греческом использовалось для обозначения высокого положения человека (BAGD...
II. PUBLIC WORSHIP 2:1-15 1. PRAYER 1 Timothy 2:1-7 _TEXT 2:1-7_ 1 I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; 2 for kings and...
For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. FOR KINGS - a confutation of the adversaries who accused Christians of disaf...
3 Translators have experienced much difficulty with this opening sentence, because it seemed to lack the principal verb. The A V adds _ so do_, the Revisers _ so do I now_. It is very seldom that any...
CONCERNING PRAYER, THANKSGIVING, AND THE PLACE OF WOMEN 1-8. The second charge to Timothy—to teach those over whom he was set to use public prayer and intercession....
FOR KINGS] Nero was at this time emperor. The Apostle's instruction, therefore, shows that the prayers of the Church are to be offered for bad rulers as well as good. _For_ ALL THAT ARE IN AUTHORITY]...
HOW TO BE A LEADER IN THE CHURCH 1 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 PRAYER FOR ALL PEOPLE (2:1-4) V1 First of all, I urge you to pray for all people. Talk to God about them. Ask God to help and...
FOR KINGS, AND FOR ALL THAT ARE IN AUTHORITY. — Without any special reference to the Roman emperors, the expression simply directs that prayer should be offered in all Christian congregations for the...
In the first place, let me remind you that the Church's public prayers must be made expressly for all men, from the Emperor downwards. This care for all becomes those who know that they are children o...
ὑπὲρ βασιλέων : Prayer for all men must be given intensity and directness by analysis into prayer for each and every sort and condition of men. St. Paul begins such an analytical enumeration with _kin...
PRAYER AND MODEST ADORNING 1 Timothy 2:1 The Apostle especially urged intercessory prayer, because it meant so much to himself. Three different words are used of prayer, because there are so many way...
The apostle then turned to the public devotions of the Church. As the Church is the medium for proclamation of the doctrine of truth, so also is it the instrument of intercession as between men and Go...
PRAYING FOR ALL MEN To be able to hold firm to the faith and teach it in the face of the opposition mentioned in the first chapter, Paul went on to urge Timothy to do certain things. A supplication is...
For kings, and [for] all that are in authority; (2) that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and (a) honesty. (2) An argument taken of the end: that is, because magistrates are ap...
_For kings, who were then heathens, this being in Nero's time. (Witham) --- Upon the happiness of the king generally depends that of his subjects. We pray for the emperors, says Tertullian, that God w...
(1) В¶ I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; (2) For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a qu...
1 Timothy 1:1-20. We enter now on the confidential communications of the apostle to some of his fellow-labourers, and tonight on the epistles to Timothy. The two have much in common, but they have als...
_CHRIST’S LAW OF INTERCESSION_ ‘I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority....
_BISHOPS AND PEOPLE_ ‘I exhort … that … prayers … be made … for all that are in authority.’ 1 Timothy 2:1 It is a hard thing to be in authority. The man in authority must live his whole life in the...
2_For kings _He expressly mentions kings and other magistrates because, more than all others, they might be hated by Christians. All the magistrates who existed at that time were so many sworn enemies...
The apostle proceeds to give instructions founded on the great principles which he had established on grace. The Jewish spirit might look on Gentile kings as enemies, and on Gentiles in general as unw...
FOR KINGS, AND FOR ALL THAT ARE IN AUTHORITY,.... For supreme governors, as the emperor of Rome, and kings of particular nations; and for all sub-governors, or inferior magistrates, as procurators or...
For kings, and _for_ all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. Ver. 2. _For kings, &c._] Though persecutors, if they have not yet sinned aga...
_For kings_ Especially; _and for all that are in authority_ “That is, for the ministers and counsellors of kings, and for the inferior magistrates, by whatever name they may be called, seeing even the...
FOR ALL THAT ARE IN AUTHORITY; men in public office and stations of influence. THAT WE MAY LEAD A QUIET AND PEACEABLE LIFE; this is the result of God's grace given to them in answer to the prayers of...
We have seen in chapter 1 that the grace of God must predominate as the one principle of true blessing, and the one corrective when falsehood threatens. Chapter 2 now calls for an attitude consistent...
For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 1. Kings - Not too many nations have kings anymore? Who would be included in th...
AUTHORITY: Or, eminent place...
“FOR KINGS”: This term was used for Roman Emperors; it was also used for the highest governors in some of the provinces, such as King Herod. The Roman Emperor at the time of this letter was Nero. Both...
1-7 The disciples of Christ must be praying people; all, without distinction of nation, sect, rank, or party. Our duty as Christians, is summed up in two words; godliness, that is, the right worshipp...
FOR KINGS, AND FOR ALL THAT ARE IN AUTHORITY: the kings of the earth at that time were all heathens, and enemies to the Christian religion, so (generally) were those who were in a subordinate authorit...
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians Pray for all the saints. Pray also for kings,[73] Theophilus to Autolycus Book III Moreover, concerning subjection to authorities and powers, and prayer for t...
1 Timothy 2:2 for G5228 kings G935 and G2532 all G3956 are G5607 (G5752) in G1722 authority G5247 that...
1 Timothy 2:2. FOR KINGS. The word was generic, but it at least included the Roman Emperor, besides those to whom, as _e.g._ to Agrippa, the kingly title was conceded. Probably in consequence of the c...
FOR KINGS (υπερ βασιλεων). And this included Nero who had already set fire to Rome and laid it on the Christians whom he was also persecuting.AND ALL THEM THAT ARE IN HIGH PLACE (κα παντων των εν...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to prayer. Divine order for the sexes. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Adam, Eve, Timothy. CONCLUSION: Christians are to be men much given to prayer, and in their prayers having...
1 Timothy 2:1. _I exhort therefore, that supplications and prayers be made for all men for kings, and all that are in authority._ Civil government is in its own nature paternal: it is designed to prot...
FOR KINGS AND ALL OTHERS. Whether they are "worthy" has nothing to do with it. Christians are to pray for all who are in authority, no matter who they are or what they are! [It is very possible that t...
_I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, supplications._ PRAYER FOR OTHERS The true Christian, however, recognizes in human history the moral government of God, He believes, because God has declared...
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 2:2 PEACEFUL, QUIET, GODLY, DIGNIFIED. This lifestyle contrasts with that of the false teachers. Living in this way reflects
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 2:1 Descriptions of Gospel-shaped Living. Paul now shows what true gospel living (1 Timothy 1:5) should look like. He asks for prayer, and
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Timothy 2:1. SUPPLICATIONS, PRAYERS, INTERCESSIONS.—The first is a special form of the second. Intercession is prayer in its most individual and urgent form—prayer...
EXPOSITION 1 TIMOTHY 2:1 _First of all_,_ that _for _that_,_ first of all_,_ _A.V.; _thanksgivings _for _and giving of thanks_._ _A.V. I EXHORT THEREFORE. The insertion of the connecting particle "th...
Ver. 2. By mentioning _all men_ as the object of their prayers and thanksgivings, the apostle undoubtedly meant to teach Christians to cherish wide and generous sympathies, and to identify their own h...
Now I exhort [Paul said] therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and the giving of thanks, be made for all men (1 Timothy 2:1); So we are exhorted to pray for each other...
1 Peter 2:13; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:11; 2 Peter 1:3;...
Kings [β α σ ι λ ε ω ν]. In Paul only 2 Corinthians 11:32. That are in authority [τ ω ν ε ν υ π ε ρ ο χ η ο ν τ ω ν]. Uperoch authority only here and 1 Corinthians 2:1. Several times in LXX Originally...
For all that are in authority — Seeing even the lowest country magistrates frequently do much good or much harm. God supports the power of magistracy for the sake of his own people, when, in the prese...