So that the man. [ANTHROPOS.] This is the same idea as the Lord's servant (2 Timothy 2:22-25). The Holy Spirit continually inspires the Scriptures, not in the sense of giving a new revelation, but in the sense of making the revealed truth a living, vital thing!
Verse 2 Timothy 3:17. _THAT THE MAN OF GOD_] The preacher of righteousness, the minister of the Gospel, the person who derives his commission from God, and always appears as _his_ herald and servant....
THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY BE PERFECT - The object is not merely to convince and to convert him; it is to furnish all the instruction needful for his entire perfection. The idea here is, not that any one...
III. THE LAST DAYS AND THEIR PERILS CHAPTER 3 __ 1. The characteristics of the last days (2 Timothy 3:1) 2. What the last days mean for the true believer (2 Timothy 3:8) 3. The need of the Word of...
(_b_) 2 TIMOTHY 3:10. TIMOTHY'S SAFEGUARDS. Grave as these dangers are, however, Timothy has a double safeguard. (_a)_ His present difficult task does not take him by surprise. When, at Lystra (Acts 1...
TIMES OF TERROR (2 Timothy 3:1) _ 3:1 You must realize this--that in the last days difficult times will set in._ The early Church lived in an age when the time was waxing late; they expected the Sec...
But as for you, remain loyal to the things which you have learned, and in which your belief has been confirmed, for you know from whom you learned them, and you know that from childhood you have known...
THAT. In order that. Greek. _hina._ THE MAN OF GOD. See App-49. GOD. App-98. PERFECT. fitted. Greek. _artios_. Only here. App-126. THROUGHLY FURNISHED. equipped. See Acts 21:5. App-126. UNTO. App...
_the man of God_ As in 1 Timothy 6:11. _perfect_ In the sense in which, for example, Confirmation is sometimes said to make -a perfect Christian," i.e. one perfectly equipped and supplied with the ful...
The appeal for pure life and doctrine in view both of St Paul's own past and the evil future The connexion is: -You were trained to a life the opposite of all this, in learning to copy me, in learnin...
ἽΝΑ ἌΡΤΙΟΣ ἮΙ Ὁ ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΕΟΥ͂ ἌΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ, _that the man of God may be complete_. The phrase ‘man of God’ is used quite generally, as in Philo (_de mut. nom._ 3), of any devout person, and has no reference...
THE USES OF HOLY SCRIPTURE...
ΆΡΤΙΟΣ (G739) подходящий, полный, способный, достаточный; то есть способный удовлетворить все требования (BAGD). Ή _praes. conj. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. _Conj._ с ΊΝ (G2443) выражает цель, ΈΞΗΡΤ...
DISCOURSE: 2257 THE EXCELLENCY OF THE SCRIPTURES 2 Timothy 3:16. _All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteo...
THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY BE PERFECT,— "That the furniture of the man of God may be complete, and that he may be thoroughly fitted for every good work which his holy calling may require." _INFERENCES.—_...
WITHSTAND THE APOSTASY 2 Timothy 3:10-17 _TEXT 3:10-17_ 10 But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience, 11 persecutions, sufferings; what things befell...
That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. MAN OF GOD (note, 1 Timothy 6:11). PERFECT, THROUGHLY FURNISHED - `thoroughly perfected' [ artios (G739) - exeertismen...
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...
3:17 complete, (b-8) _ Artios_ . 'complete as to qualifications.'...
WARNINGS AND EXHORTATIONS REGARDING THE LAST DAYS 1-9. In the days immediately preceding the Second Coming, the Lord had taught that iniquity would abound. St. Paul reminds Timothy of this truth as a...
EXHORTATION. Timothy was well instructed in the OT. and in the gospel preached by St. Paul, and he must 'abide in the things that he had learnt and been assured of.'...
HOW WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER TO DO GOD’S WORK 2 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 EVIL PERSONS IN THE LAST DAYS (3:1-9) V1 You should be aware that in the last days life will be very diffi...
THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY BE PERFECT, THROUGHLY FURNISHED UNTO ALL GOOD WORKS. — The “man of God” here is no official designation, but simply designates the Christian generally, who is striving, with hi...
CHAPTER 34 THE PERILS OF RATIONALISM AND THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF A LIFELONG CONTACT WITH TRUTH-THE PROPERTIES OF INSPIRED WRITINGS. - 2 Timothy 3:14 FOR the second time in this paragraph the Apostle...
ἄρτιος : _perfectus, completely equipped_ for his work as a Man of God. τέλειος would have reference to his performance of it. ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ ἄνθρωπος : See on 1 Timothy 6:11. _The Man of God_ has here a...
I am not really uneasy about your steadfastness. You joined me as a disciple from spiritual and moral inducements only. The persecutions you saw me endure you knew to be typical of the conditions of a...
HOLD FAST TO INSPIRED SCRIPTURE 2 Timothy 3:10 The world does not love Christ or Christians any better than of old; and all who are minded to live godly lives will come inevitably to the cross in one...
Clearly seeing trouble coming from the teaching of those who were ''holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof," the apostle referred to his own manner of life and service as aff...
POWER TO CONFRONT THE COMING APOSTASY Paul's life stood in contrast to the lives of the false teachers and should have served as an example to Timothy and others around him. His teaching was sound and...
That the (e) man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. (e) The Prophets and expounders of God's will are properly and distinctly called, men of God....
REFLECTIONS READER! while the Apostle is thus speaking to the Church, of the perilous times that should come, may we not say with John: Little Children, it is the last time. And as we have heard that...
(14) But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; (15) And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are...
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...
17_That the man of God may be perfect. Perfect _means here a blameless person, one in whom there is nothing defective; for he asserts absolutely, that the Scripture is sufficient for perfection. Accor...
Now this evil influence would too surely be exercised. The power of the holy truth of God would be lost in the assembly and among Christians; and those who bore this name would become (under the influ...
THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY BE PERFECT,.... By the man of God may be meant everyone that in a special relation belongs to God; who is chosen by God the Father, redeemed by the Son, and called by the Spiri...
That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. Ver. 17. _That the man of God_] The minister, and so consequently the people too, for whose use the minister hath all. Thi...
THE MAN OF GOD; especially the religious teacher. PERFECT, THOROUGHLY FURNISHED; prepared and furnished on all sides. UNTO ALL GOOD WORKS; pertaining to him as a teacher. These include his life as we...
THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY BE PERFECT, THOROUGHLY FURNISHED UNTO ALL GOOD WORKS. These words place Timothy in direct opposition to the hypocrites and false teachers; for his faith and the work of his min...
THE PURPOSE OF HOLY SCRIPTURES....
When Paul wrote this to Timothy, "the last days" had not yet come, so it is evident that the epistle is not written strictly for Timothy personally, but for every individual believer who would follow...
14-17 Those who would learn the things of God, and be assured of them, must know the Holy Scriptures, for they are the Divine revelation. The age of children is the age to learn; and those who would...
THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY BE PERFECT; that both ministers and all godly men may be as perfect as they can be in the state of mortality, fitted for the duties of their several callings and places. THROUG...
2 Timothy 3:17 that G2443 man G444 God G2316 be G5600 (G5753) complete G739 equipped G1822 (G5772) for...
SECTION 3. THOSE WHO ARE TRULY THE LORD'S MUST EQUIP THEMSELVES ACCORDINGLY, ESPECIALLY IN VIEW OF THE GRIEVOUS TIMES THAT ARE COMING (2 TIMOTHY 2:19 TO 2 TIMOTHY 3:17). Having called on him to endure...
2 Timothy 3:17. THAT THE MAN OF GOD. This, in technical language, is the final cause of the inspiration of Scripture the reason why God has thus made it profitable. The _‘_ man of God' is used here, a...
THE MAN OF GOD (ο του θεου ανθρωπος). See 1 Timothy 6:11.MAY BE COMPLETE (ινα η αρτιος). Final clause with ινα and present subjunctive of ειμ. Αρτιος is old word (from root αρω, to fit), speciall...
PERFECT Complete. (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:48). _...
2 Timothy 3:16 The Profitableness of Scripture. We have here two great affirmations concerning the Scriptures. First, they are inspired of God; next, they are religiously profitable. I. First, howev...
2 Timothy 3:14 There can be no reasonable doubt what is meant by the sacred writings with which Timothy had been familiar from his infancy. His mother, Eunice, was "a Jewess which believed," and the f...
2 Timothy 3:1. This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,...
CONTENTS: Apostasy predicted. The believer's resource, the Scriptures. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Timothy, Jannes, Jambres, Moses. CONCLUSION: The last days of the Gospel dispensation will be perilous...
2 Timothy 3:1. _In the last days perilous times shall come._ So the Spirit expressly spake when the measure of the jews should be full, when they should even deliver up their relatives to death, and w...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 3:14. KNOWING OF WHOM.—R.V. margin, “Gr. what persons.” The apostle does not take the sole credit of the discipleship of Timothy, whose “faith does not stan...
EXPOSITION 2 TIMOTHY 3:1 _But know this _for _this know also_,_ _A.V.; _grievous _for _perilous_,_ _A.V. GRIEVOUS TIMES (καιροὶ χαλεποί)._ _"Grievous" is not a very good rendering. "Perilous," thou...
Ver. 17. Then follows the practical aim and result of this profitableness, when turned to proper account: _in order that the man of God may be perfect_ (ἄρτιος, _aptus in officio,_ Bengel; every way c...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Second Timothy chapter three? Paul said to Timothy, This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come (2 Timothy 3:1). It is interesting that the Scri...
1 Timothy 6:11; 2 Corinthians 9:8; 2 Timothy 2:21; Acts 9:36;...
Perfect [α ρ τ ι ο ς]. N. T. o. LXX Rev. complete; but the idea is rather that of mutual, symmetrical adjustment of all that goes to make the man : harmonious combination of different qualities and po...
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...
That the man of God — He that is united to and approved of God. May be perfect — Blameless himself, and throughly furnished — By the scripture, either to teach, reprove, correct, or train up others....