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2 Timothy 2:15
Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
Verse 15. _STUDY TO SHOW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD_] Endeavour so to cultivate and improve thy heart and mind, that thou mayest not be a reproach to him from whom thou professest to receive thy commis...
STUDY TO SHOW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD - Give diligence 2 Peter 2:10, or make an effort so to discharge the duties of the ministerial office as to meet the divine approbation. The object of the minis...
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
CHARGE TO TIMOTHY CONCERNING PRESENT ERROR. The false teaching considered in this epistle is partly present and partly future. Paul's first charge relates to the former type. For its _general characte...
THE CHAIN OF TEACHING (2 Timothy 2:1-2)...
Put out every effort to present yourself to God as one who has stood the test, as a workman who has no need to be ashamed, as one who rightly handles the word of truth. Avoid these godless chattering...
STUDY. Be diligent. Greek _spoudazo._ See Galatians 1:2; Galatians 1:10. SHEW. present, as Colossians 1:22; Colossians
-Let your own example back your precepts to your teachers." The stress therefore is to be laid on -thyself." _Study to shew thyself_ TAKE PAINS TO PRESENT THYSELF; both verbs are aorists, because tha...
The Especial Sphere of both Personal and Ministerial Zeal is (1) Pure Doctrine, (2) a Pure Life The proper connexion is to be sought in the earlier part of the previous passage, particularly 2 Timoth...
ΣΠΟΎΔΑΣΟΝ ΣΕΑΥΤῸΝ ΔΌΚΙΜΟΝ ΠΑΡΑΣΤΗ͂ΣΑΙ ΤΩ͂Ι ΘΕΩ͂Ι. _Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God_. For the phrase παριστάνειν τῷ θεῷ cp. 1 Corinthians 8:8; and for a salutary warning as to the t...
CHARGE II. SHUN VAIN SPECULATIONS...
ΣΠΟΎΔΑΣΟΝ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΣΠΟΥΔΆΖΩ (G4704) стараться. Это слово обозначает постоянное рвение (Guthrie), ΔΌΚΙΜΟΣ (G1384) одобренный после исследования или проверки (TDNT; BS, 259-62; TLNT; MM; P...
RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH.— The Vulgate, no doubt, has given in general the true sense of this expression, by rendering it, _Recte tractantem verbum veritatis, "rightly handling the word of t...
e. As a workman 2 Timothy 2:14-19 _TEXT 2:14-19_ 14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting...
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. STUDY, [ Spoudason (G4704)] - 'Be earnest.' TO SHOW, [ parasteesai (G3936)]...
8 The literal resurrection of Christ as the Seed of David seems to be the apostle's answer to the theory of a spiritual resurrection. The Seed of David can be nothing less than a literal Man. 10 'The...
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 Timot...
RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH] The original word means either cutting a straight path for it, or dealing in a straightforward way with it....
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...
CHAPTER 32 THE NEED OF A SOLEMN CHARGE AGAINST A CONTROVERSIAL SPIRIT, OF DILIGENCE FREE FROM SHAME, AND OF A HATRED OF THE PROFANITY WHICH WRAPS UP ERROR IN THE LANGUAGE OF TRUTH. - 2 Timothy 2:14 W...
σπούδασον : _Give diligence to present thyself_ (as well as thy work) _to God, approved_. ἀνεπαίσχυντον : Chrys. takes this to mean _a workman that does not scorn to put his hand to anything_; but it...
Discourage the new false teaching by precept and example. There is no need, however, that you should despair of the Church. It is founded upon a rock, in spite of appearances. Take a broad view of the...
“APPROVED UNTO GOD” 2 Timothy 2:10 _ The elect_, 2 Timothy 2:10: The Apostle sketches the experiences of the elect soul. It must endure, suffer, and die with Christ, that out of its surrender may com...
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...
URGENT MATTERS IN THE MIDST OF DOCTRINAL ERROR Paul charged his son in the gospel with reminding those who would listen to him of the truths listed in the previous verses. Any charge placed before one...
(9) Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, (e) rightly dividing the word of truth. (9) The fifth admonition: a minister must not be an idle disputer, but a...
Thyself approved, [5] or acceptable to God. --- Rightly handling. [6] In the Greek, cutting or dividing the word of truth, according to the capacities of the hearers, and for the good of all. (Witham)...
(14) В¶ Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. (15) Study to shew thyself approved...
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...
_GOD’S WORKMEN*_ ‘Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be asbamed.’ 2 Timothy 2:15 Workmen we are in the high and in the holy sense, ‘fellow-workers with God.’ May...
15_Study to shew thyself to be approved by God _Since all disputes about doctrine arise from this source, that men are desirous to make a boast of ingenuity before the world, Paul here applies the bes...
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...
STUDY TO SHOW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD,.... The Alexandrian copy reads, "to Christ"; see Romans 16:10. Not unto men, as pleasing them; for such who study to please men, are not the servants of Christ...
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Ver. 15. _Study to show thyself_] There are crept into God's sanctuary such Levi...
_Study to show thyself approved_, &c. Greek, σπουδασον σεαυτον δοκιμον παραστησαι τω Θεω, literally, _be zealous, make haste_, or _diligently endeavour, to present thyself approved to God_, what ever...
DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH; communicating to each the portion suited to his wants....
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...
14-21 Those disposed to strive, commonly strive about matters of small moment. But strifes of words destroy the things of God. The apostle mentions some who erred. They did not deny the resurrection,...
OLBGrk; STUDY TO SHOW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD; let it be thy study, not to please men, to get their hum and applause for speaking quaintly, learnedly, or smoothly, but to approve thyself to God, who...
Origen Against Celsus Book V object to try, by means of arguments and treatises, to confirm men in their faith, and to earn the name of "workmen needing not to be ashamed, tightly dividing the word o...
2 Timothy 2:15 diligent G4704 (G5657) present G3936 (G5658) yourself G4572 approved G1384 God G2316 worker G2040
2 Timothy 2:15. STUDY, Strictly, ‘ _be eager, be zealous.'_ APPROVED, _i.e._ tried and standing the trial. RIGHTLY DIVIDING. The literal meaning, ‘ _cutting straight,_ ' admits obviously of many fi...
GIVE DILIGENCE (σπουδασον). First aorist active imperative of σπουδαζω, old word, as in 1 Thessalonians 2:17; Galatians 2:10.TO PRESENT (παραστησα). First aorist active infinitive of παριστημ as i...
2 Timothy 2:15. _Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth._ This is a metaphor taken from the action of the priest at the...
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...
DO YOUR BEST. This is required of every Christian! [In ancient English, _study_ meant _to do your best._] TO WILL FULL APPROVAL. "It is God whom we must please, not the Circumcision party or anyone el...
_Study to show thyself approved unto God._ APPROVED The word which he uses (σπουδάζειν)_ is _one which scarcely occurs in the New Testament, except in the writings of St. Paul. And the corresponding...
PUT YOUR HEART INTO IT A workman that needeth not to be ashamed. 2 Timothy 2:15. In the fifteenth century there lived in the city of Florence two great sculptors, Brunelleschi and Donatello. Brunell...
2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 2:15 DO YOUR BEST. Timothy must consistently and happily carry out the work God has given him to do. One way to do this is to make sure he is RIGHTLY HANDLING Scripture. Th...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 2:14. CHARGING THEM.—Adjure them on their oath of fealty. 2 Timothy 2:15. STUDY TO SHEW THYSELF.—R.V. “Give diligence to present thyself.” The word expresse...
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. 15. _Give diligence to present thyself to God approved:_ δόκιμον, one who can stand, or has actually stood, the test appointed by God, and come forth stamped with His approval. The object of the...
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 2:6; 1 Corinthians 3:1; 1 Corinthians 3:2; 1 Thessalonians 2:4;...
:2 Timothy 2 _15 2 Timothy 2:1 5Study [σ π ο υ δ α σ ο ν]. Originally, make haste. In Paul, Galatians 2:10; Ephesians 4:3 (note);...
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...
OUR GUIDE AMONG THE WRECKAGE 2 Timothy 1:3; 2 Timothy 2:15; 2 Timothy 3:14; 2 Timothy 4:1;...
A workman that needeth not to be ashamed — Either of unfaithfulness or unskilfulness. Rightly dividing the word of truth — Duly explaining and applying the whole scripture, so as to give each hearer h...