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2 Timothy 1:7

Does not make us timid. The Expositor's Greek Testament says us refers to The Christian Society (messianic community). See Romans 8:15 and note. Power = courage. See Acts 4:31 and note. Love. Christians are not motivated by selfish spirit seen in the Jewish leaders and the Circumcision Party, who hated everybody and loved only the members of their own group. "You can only love God as much as you love your brother!" (1 John 4:20). Self-control. A disciplined, orderly life. Compare 1 Corinthians 6:12.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR - A timorous and servile spirit. This is said in order to encourage Timothy, who was not improbably modest and diffident. BUT OF POWER - Power to encounter...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HATH. GIVEN. gave. NOT. App-105. THE. a. SPIRIT. App-101. FEAR. cowardice. Greek. _deilia._ Only here. POWER. App-172. LOVE. App-135. SOUND MIND. Greek _sophroaiamoa._ Only here. Compare 1Ti 2:9...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Timothy's inheritance of Personal Faith and Ministerial Gifts a double ground of Appeal From what St Paul was himself follows now the first appeal to Timothy, based on his affectionate remembrance of...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For God hath not given us_ Rather, GAVE US; i.e. both St Paul and Timothy, at the time of their -setting apart" for the ministry; this gift is of special grace for special work, more particularly the...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    CHARGE I. BE ZEALOUS; BE COURAGEOUS; STIR UP YOUR ORDINATION GRACE...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΔΕΙΛΊΑΣ. So all the principal manuscripts; some cursives have δουλείας from a reminiscence of Romans 8:15. See note _in loc_. 7. ΟΥ̓ ΓᾺΡ ἜΔΩΚΕΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. _For God did not give us_, i.e. [not all Christi...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:7 discretion. (f-20) A quiet, sound or sober mind....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 27 2 Timothy THE CHARACTER AND CONTENTS OF THE LAST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL-THE NEMESIS OF NEGLECTED GIFTS. - 2 Timothy 1:6 IN the Second Epistle to Timothy we have the last known words of St. P...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    I know that your weak point is deficiency in moral courage. Be braced, therefore, by the assurance that I am constantly thinking with thankfulness and prayer about your genuine and inborn faith; and b...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    οὐ γὰρ ἔδωκεν ἡμῖν : The γάρ connects this statement with the exhortation preceding in such a way as to suggest that God's gift “to us” of a spirit of power is in the same order of being as the charis...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For God hath not given us the spirit of (d) fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. (d) To pierce us through, and terrify us, as men whom the Lord will destroy....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Of fear. [3] Of a cowardly fear, and want of courage. --- Of sobriety. [4] Though the Protestants here translate of a sound mind, yet they translate the same Greek word by sobriety in divers other pl...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _A SPIRIT OF COURAGE_ ‘Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee is the putting on of mg bands. For God bath not given us the spirit of fear; but of powe...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7_For God hath not given to us a spirit of cowardice _It is a confirmation of what he had said immediately before; and thus he continues to urge Timothy to display the power of the gifts which he had...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR,.... A pusillanimous, cowardly spirit, so as to be afraid of men or devils, of what they will say or do; and so as to be discouraged in, sink under, or be...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Ver. 7. _The spirit of fear_] δειλειας, called elsewhere the spirit of bondage, δουλειας, Romans 8:15. Th...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Wherefore_ Because I remember this; _I put thee in remembrance_ Because of my love to thee; _that thou stir up the gift of God_ That is, every gift which the grace of God has given thee. The word ανα...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    FEAR; timidity and cowardice, manifested in shrinking from arduous and dangerous services. POWER; energy and courage in meeting and overcoming difficulties....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PAUL REMINDS TIMOTHY OF HIS EARLY TRAINING AND ITS OBLIGATIONS....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    FOR GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR, BUT OF POWER AND OF LOVE AND OF A SOUND MIND. Without further introduction the apostle broaches the matter that is filling his mind. His heart is full to...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OLBGrk; FOR GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR: _fear_ in this place signifieth fearfuluess, or cowardice, or poorness of spirit, in opposition to that holy fortitude which becomes ministers; th...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me his prisoner," he writes to Timothy.[74] Tertullian Scorpiace for he had said before: "For God...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Timothy 1:7 For G1063 God G2316 has G1325 not G3756 given G1325 (G5656) us G2254 spirit G4151 fear...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    2 Timothy 1:7. GOD HATH NOT GIVEN. Better, ‘ _did not give.'_ THE SPIRIT OF FEAR. Better, _‘cowardice._ Here, again, in the use of so strong a word, we trace the desire of the apostle to rouse Timot...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    A SPIRIT OF FEARFULNESS (πνευμα δειλιας). Here πνευμα is the χαρισμα of verse 2 Timothy 1:6, the human spirit as endowed by the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:15). Δειλια is an old word (δειλοσ, δειδω) and...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 1:3 Enduring for the Gospel. Paul’s thanksgiving (2 Timothy 1:3) leads to encouraging Timothy ...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 1:6 Paul challenges Timothy to continue following in his footsteps (compare 2 Timothy 3:10)....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 1:7 SPIRIT. Probably the Holy Spirit. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 1:6. STIR UP THE GIFT.—As the soldier draws together the embers of his watch-fire, making the flame leap up, so St. Paul would have this good soldier of Jes...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    Ver. 7. _For God gave us not the spirit of cowardice, but of power, and love, and correction._ By spirit here may be understood either God's Spirit working in a certain manner in us, or our own spirit...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 2:4; 1 John 4:18; 1 Peter 1:22; 2 Corinthians 5:13;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Spirit of fear [π ν ε υ μ α δ ε ι λ ι α ς]. Better, of cowardice. N. T. Comp. Romans 8:15, and see on the Spirit, Romans 8:4; Romans 8:5. Of power [δ υ ν α μ ε ω ς]. Found in all the Pauline Epistles...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    SEVEN BIBLE MOTHERS 2 Timothy 1:1; _2 Timothy 3:13_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We are studying a theme today which should have in it much of value to every one of us; even the men and the young men love mot...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And let nothing discourage thee, for God hath not given us — That is, the spirit which God hath given us Christians, is not the spirit of fear — Or cowardice. But of power — Banishing fear. And love a...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Here our apostle exhorts Timothy to an holy courage and undaunted resolution in the execution of his office. As if he had said, "Be not discouraged by persection: for God hath not given us, his messen...

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