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2 Timothy 1:8
Be not thou, therefore, ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, His prisoner; but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel according to the power of God,
Be not thou, therefore, ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, His prisoner; but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel according to the power of God,
Verse 8. _BE NOT - ASHAMED OF THE TESTIMONY_] The testimony of Christ is the _Gospel_ in general, which proclaims _Christ crucified_, and redemption _through his blood_. In the sight of the _world_,...
BE NOT THOU THEREFORE ASHAMED OF THE TESTIMONY OF OUR LORD - Do not be ashamed to bear your testimony to the doctrines taught by the Lord Jesus; John 3:11, John 3:32; John 7:7; compare...
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 fo...
2 Timothy 1:6 to 2 Timothy 2:13. APPEAL TO TIMOTHY FOR COURAGE IN FACE OF DIFFICULTIES. (_a_) 2 Timothy 1:6. DIRECT APPEAL, BASED ON TIMOTHY'S ORDINATION GIFT. The false teachers have created a situat...
AN APOSTLE'S GLORY AND AN APOSTLE'S PRIVILEGE (2 Timothy 1:1-7)...
So, then, do not be ashamed to bear your witness to our Lord; and do not be ashamed of me his prisoner; but accept with me the suffering which the gospel brings, and do so in the power of God, who sav...
NOT. App-105. OF. Genitive of relation, concerning. NOR. Greek. _mede._ PARTAKER OF THE AFFLICTIONS. suffer evil with (me). Greek _su nkakopatheo_, Only here. OF. for. GOSPEL. App-120....
Appeal to Timothy to be a brave Champion both of the saving work of Christ and of the suffering witness of St Paul 8. _Be not thou therefore ashamed_ Omit -thou" here, and in -be thou partaker;" the...
ΜῊ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ἘΠΑΙΣΧΥΝΘΗ͂ΙΣ. The exhortation is consequent on the assertion of the gift of the Spirit in 2 Timothy 1:7; as Bengel has it “victo timore, fugit pudor malus.” ΤΟΥ͂ ΚΥΡΊΟΥ ἩΜΩ͂Ν ‘_about_ our Lo...
CHARGE I. BE ZEALOUS; BE COURAGEOUS; STIR UP YOUR ORDINATION GRACE...
ΟΎΝ (G3767) следовательно, делает логический вывод из предыдущего, ΈΠΑΙΣΧΥΝΘΉΣ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΈΠΑΙΣΧΎΝΟΜΑΙ (G1870) стыдиться, испытывать или чувствовать стыд, с акцентом на его причине (LN: 31...
THE TESTIMONY OF OUR LORD,— That is, "The gospel itself; and more particularly the freedom of the Gentile converts from all subjection to the law of Moses." _His prisoner_ means, _Prisoner on his acco...
PART ONE _Exhortations 1:6-2:26_ 1. DO NOT BE ASHAMED 2 Timothy 1:6-18 a. Timothy 2 Timothy 1:6-11 _TEXT 1:6-11_ 6 For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, wh...
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; THEREFORE - seeing that God...
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...
1:8 tidings, (g-23) This personification of the gospel is very common with Paul....
HIS PRISONER] St. Paul was now undergoing his last imprisonment in Rome. He refers in like manner to his first imprisonment in Ephesians 3:1; Ephesians 4:1; Philemon 1:9. PARTAKER OF THE AFFLICTIONS O...
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...
Exhortation to firmness in his glorious calling. 6. Stir up] as a fire that is beginning to die down. THE GIFT OF GOD] which he received at his ordination by the laying on of the hands of St. Paul and...
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...
BE NOT THOU THEREFORE ASHAMED OF THE TESTIMONY OF OUR LORD. — Seeing, then — remembering, then, that God gave you and me (notice the beautiful courtesy of the old martyr waiting for death, death the _...
to 2 Timothy 2:2. The leading thoughts in this section are (_a_) the Day of reward and judgment which is surely coming (2 Timothy 1:12; 2 Timothy 1:18), (_b_) the unreasonableness therefore of cowardl...
μὴ οὖν ἐπαισχυνθῇς : The Saying of Jesus (Mark 8:38 = Luke 9:26) was probably in St. Paul's mind. He alludes to it again, 2 Timothy 2:12. The aor. subj. with μὴ forbids the supposition that Timothy ha...
“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 th...
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...
PAUL WAS NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL Part of Paul's ability to be content in whatever state he was in must have come from the view expressed in 2 Timothy 1:8 (1 Peter 4:11; Ephesians 3:1;...
(3) Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me (e) his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the (f) gospel according to the (g) power of God; (3) He proves...
_Labour with [5] the gospel. That is, labour with me in preaching, &c. Or by the Greek, be partner with me in suffering. (Witham)_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Collabora, _Greek: sugkakopatheson. Mala ferto mecum...
(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...
8_Be not ashamed, therefore _He said this, because the confession of the gospel was accounted infamous; and therefore he forbids that either ambition or the fear of disgrace shall prevent or retard hi...
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...
BE NOT THEN THEREFORE ASHAMED OF THE TESTIMONY OF OUR LORD,.... Either that testimony which Christ bore personally by his doctrine and miracles, and by his sufferings and death; or rather the Gospel s...
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; Ver. 8. _Afflictions of the go...
_Be not thou, therefore_ Discouraged by any dangers or trials; or _ashamed of the testimony of our Lord_ The gospel which testifies of Christ, or of testifying the truth and importance of it to all me...
THE TESTIMONY OF OUR LORD; the work of testifying for Christ. PARTAKER; with me and all the faithful. THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE GOSPEL; those which they were called to suffer in preaching it. ACCORDING...
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...
6-14 God has not given us the spirit of fear, but the spirit of power, of courage and resolution, to meet difficulties and dangers; the spirit of love to him, which will carry us through opposition....
BE NOT THOU THEREFORE ASHAMED OF THE TESTIMONY OF OUR LORD; either the testimony of Christ himself; _who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; _ or that testimony which thou art obliged t...
Tertullian Scorpiace "Be not thou, therefore, ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner; "[104]...
2 Timothy 1:8 Therefore G3767 not G3361 ashamed G1870 (G5680) testimony G3142 our G2257 Lord G2962 nor G3366 me...
2 Timothy 1:8. BE NOT THOU THEREFORE ASHAMED. The exhortation, grounded on the fact that the spiritual gifts which he had received should be allowed, as it were, free play, implies some fear that Timo...
BE NOT ASHAMED OF (μη επαισχυνθηις). First aorist (ingressive) passive subjunctive (in prohibition) of επαισχυνομα, old word, to be ashamed. Again in verse 2 Timothy 1:16 without augment (επαισχυνθη...
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...
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: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the...
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,_ Paul takes high ground. He is not an apostle by the will of the Church...
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 ne...
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...
DO NOT BE ASHAMED. (1) _of witnessing._ [_Witness:_ to attest, testify, furnish proof of, things known or believed to be true (Webster).] (2) _of me,_ See 1 Corinthians 4:8-9 and notes. The ghastly th...
2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 1:8 These verses summarize the GOSPEL for which God’s servants suffer. Paul clearly believes that such a glorious message is worthy of their suffering. God, who saved us......
2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 1:6 Paul challenges Timothy to continue following in his footsteps (compare 2 Timothy 3:10)....
2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 1:3 Enduring for the Gospel. Paul’s thanksgiving (2 Timothy 1:3) leads to encouraging Timothy ...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 1:8. OF ME HIS PRISONER.—This might mean—(_a_) the prisoner belonging to Him; or (_b_) one who is a prisoner for His sake; or again (_c_) one whom He has bou...
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 antecede...
Ver. 8. _Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner._ Having received from God such a spirit, show it now by repressing all emotions of shame, and boldly avowin...
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 Corinthians 4:9; 1 John 4:14; 1 John 5:11; 1 John 5:12; 1 Peter 1:5
Be not ashamed [μ η ε π α ι σ χ υ ν θ η ς]. See on Luke 9:26. Testimony [μ α ρ τ υ ρ ι ο ν]. See on 1 Timothy 2:6. His prisoner [δ ε σ μ ι ο ν α υ τ ο υ]. Paul styles himself the prisoner of the Lord...
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF A CHRISTIAN 2 Timothy 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is a mistake to imagine that those who walk with Christ will find a level pathway without any valley or any mountain top, a path...
Therefore be not thou ashamed — When fear is banished, evil shame also flees away. Of the testimony of our Lord — The gospel, and of testifying the truth of it to all men. Nor of me — The cause of the...