Verse 12. All that will live godly] So opposite to the spirit and practice of the world is the whole of Christianity, that he who gives himself entirely up to God, making the Holy Scriptures the rule of his words and actions, will be less or more reviled and persecuted. "If religion gives no quarter to vice, the vicious will give no quarter to religion and its professors."
YEA, AND ALL THAT WILL LIVE GODLY IN CHRIST JESUS SHALL SUFFER PERSECUTION - Paul takes occasion from the reference to his own persecutions, to say that his case was not unique. It was the common lot...
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 you have been my disciple in my teaching, my training, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance, my persecutions, my sufferings, in what happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium,...
WILL. App-102. LIVE. App-170. GODLY Greek _eusabos._ Only here and Titus 2:12. CHRIST JESUS. App-98. SUFFER PERSECUTION. be persecuted....
_Yea, and all_ The force of the two conjunctions is shewn in note on 1 Timothy 3:10. _that will live godly_ WHOSE WILL IS, compare Luke 16:26, -they whose will is to pass from hence to you." -In Chris...
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...
ΖΗ͂Ν ΕΥ̓ΣΕΒΩ͂Σ. This is the order of אAP, the Bohairic and the Harclean; the rec. text has εὐσεβῶς ζῆν with CD2EGKL, the Peshito, the Latin versions &c., perhaps from confusion with Titus 2:12. 12. ΚΑ...
TIMOTHY IS COMMENDED FOR HIS LOYALTY AND ENCOURAGED TO ENDURE...
ΚΑΊ... ΔΈ (G2532; G1161) но даже, да и (Ellicott). ΘΈΛΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΘΈΛΩ (G2309) желать, хотеть, мечтать, с _inf._ ΖΉΝ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΖΆΩ (G2198) жить. Инфинитив-дополнение к...
DISCOURSE: 2255 THE TRUE GOSPEL HATED 2 Timothy 3:12. _All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution_. WE are apt to imagine that persecution for righteousness’ sake was peculiar...
YEA, AND ALL THAT WILL LIVE GODLY, &C.— This may import something peculiar to the godliness to be exercised by Christians, as being agreeable to the revelation of Christ, animated by his example, and...
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...
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. YEA, AND - an additional consideration. If Timothy wishes to live godly in Christ, he must make up his mind to encounter...
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...
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.'...
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...
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...
YEA, AND ALL THAT WILL LIVE GODLY. — But St. Paul would not allow it to be thought for a moment that in the fact of his enduring persecution and suffering there was anything remarkable or singular; so...
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...
This verse is an interesting example of the effect of association of ideas. St. Paul's teaching after his persecutions at Antioch, etc., had strongly emphasised this topic. St. Luke (Acts 14:22) actua...
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...
I beg the Reader to notice, what a blessed relief the Holy Ghost here proposeth to Timothy, from the melancholy statement, the preceding verses had given, in the example of his faithful servant the Ap...
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...
12_And all who wish to live a godly life _(186) Having mentioned his own persecutions, he likewise adds now, that nothing has happened to him which does not await all the godly. (187) And he says this...
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...
YEA, AND ALL THAT WILL LIVE GODLY IN CHRIST JESUS,.... All that live according to the will of God revealed in his word; and to the glory of God, as the end of all their actions; and which the grace of...
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. Ver. 12. _Yea, and all that will live_] Carry they the matter never so discreetly, they must suffer. Many dream of a delica...
_But_ thou hast a better pattern to follow; for _thou hast fully known my doctrine_ In all the branches of it; _manner of life_ My conduct toward God, his people, and all men; _purpose_ The end and de...
YEA, AND ALL THAT WILL LIVE GODLY IN CHRIST JESUS SHALL SUFFER PERSECUTION....
THE SPECIAL LESSONS OF PAUL'S AFFLICTIONS....
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...
10-13 The more fully we know the doctrine of Christ, as taught by the apostles, the more closely we shall cleave to it. When we know the afflictions of believers only in part, they tempt us to declin...
Such is the disposal of Divine Providence, such the malice of the men in the world, that though not every individual person, yet it is the usual lot of them who will keep a pure faith and a good consc...
Cyprian Treatise VII On the Mortality It disturbs some that this mortality is common to us with others; and yet what is there in this world which is not common to us with others, so long as this fles...
2 Timothy 3:12 Yes G1161 and G2532 all G3956 desire G2309 (G5723) live G2198 (G5721) godly G2153 in...
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 3:12. ALL THAT WILL LIVE GODLY. The Greek is emphatic, ‘ _all who purpose_,' _‘all whose will is_ ' to live godly. The general axiom is clearly intended to remind Timothy that there is no te...
THAT WOULD LIVE GODLY (ο θελοντες ζηιν ευσεβως). "Those who desire (will, determine) to live godly." Paul does not regard his experience as peculiar, but only part of the price of loyal service to...
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...
WILL BE PERSECUTED. We could almost say: "God does not want you unless you want him enough to fight for Him!" Persecution makes people evaluate their love for God. Compare 1 Thessalonians 3:3; John 16...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 3:10. BUT THOU HAST FULLY KNOWN.—R.V. “didst follow.” The mental process of investigation and the moral process of imitating the good seem to blend in this...
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. 12. _Yea, and all_ (καὶ πάντες δὲ, or, and all too) _who are minded to live piously in Christ Jesus, shall be persecuted._ The apostle had spoken of his own persecutions, how he himself bore them...
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 Corinthians 15:19; 1 Peter 2:20; 1 Peter 2:21; 1 Peter 3:14;...
Who will live [ο ι θ ε λ ο ν τ ε ς ζ η ν]. Whose will is to live, or who are bent on living. Godly [ε υ σ ε β ω ς]. Only here and Titus 2:12. Comp. kat' eujsebeian according to godliness, 1 Timothy 6:...
All that are resolved to live godly — Therefore count the cost. Art thou resolved? In Christ — Out of Christ there is no godliness. Shall suffer persecution — More or less. There is no exception. Eith...
Are all who live godly lives persecuted, or only some? PROBLEM: Here the apostle makes the sweeping statement that “all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.” This appears...