Difficult is the Greek word chalepos ( G5467) . But the sin of the man who is arrogant is in his heart. The qualities he lists are not qualifications in the sense that anyone who fulfils these requirements is an elder (for such a person may not have the elder-shepherd qualities outlined above). They were violent and dangerous. Xenophon in the Memorabilia tells how Socrates utterly condemned such impostors. "He kicked the world about," said one, "as if it had been a football." Titus, we know, did so; but God took care that it should never be positively stated about Timothy. Salem Media Group. In the former epistle, Timothy was told how to behave in the house of God, as yet in order; but now we are told how to behave in such a state of things as the present disorder. I don't know exactly yet what He said but when I find out I know He's going to be right. Seeking the Gospel in Malachi, the Last Book of the Old Testament. I'm just saying, Hey, I am stupid and I lack an understanding. Men will be disobedient to their parents. Second Timothy 3:12-13 "Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. 10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. Love of self is the basic sin, from which all others flow. There is little likelihood that Timothy will be easily led astray by false teaching. "Follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. Deliberately he lit it. In living in such a manner, persecution will come; but the Lord will deliver the faithful. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. But the apostle at the same time owns, and loves to own, that which another might perhaps despise. Introduction; 2 Timothy 1 Commentary; He is sure that God will rescue the man who puts his faith in him. This might deter a sensitive saint from his duty. "Evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived." Commentary on 2 Timothy 1:1-14 - Working Preacher Yet. And Paul said, You've known the Holy Scriptures, able to bring you to a faith in Jesus Christ, salvation through the faith in Jesus Christ. The one was suited to upset the young, the other to beguile the old. "Knowing especially the firm foundation upon which thou hast built, namely, that of the scripture (2 Timothy 3:15; 2 Timothy 3:15): That from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures.". 2 Timothy 3:12 - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org Men can be savage in rebuke and savage in pitiless action. Christ's apostles had no enemies but those who did not know them, or not know them fully; those who knew them best loved and honoured them the most. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. Storge is the word used especially of family love, the love of child for parent and parent for child. And why read them anyhow if they're not inspired? 1. repentance from dead works and of faith toward God. We should not be any more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive,Ephesians 4:14. Why? The first is the moral character of the source or channel whence Timothy had derived what he knew. At the end of each reading, the brigand said: "That's a good book; we won't burn that one; give it to me." Proud member I reply, it is not always in one way that Satan persecutes the servants of Christ. The moment a man makes his own will the centre of life, divine and human relationships are destroyed, obedience to God and charity to men both become impossible. And in the end they shall perish together with them." Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. They choose to lay, again and again, the early foundations of their Christian faith i.e. He was to continue in the things which he had learned, and had been assured of, knowing of whom he had learned them a very important point. The closing chapter (2 Timothy 4:1-22) then gives his solemn charge, and at the same time his own expression of what was before him. It would not be accordant with the mind of God. (i) He says that the Scriptures give the wisdom which will bring salvation. 2 Timothy 3:12-13 Commentary | Precept Austin Boy, I'll tell you, I don't know. These things may be expected in the best times, and under the most favorable circumstances; and it is known that a large part of the history of the world, in its relation to the church, is nothing more than a history of persecution. How comes it so? What Does 2 Timothy 3:12 Mean? - Verse of the day Those who would acquaint themselves with the things of God, and be assured of them, must know the holy scriptures, for these are the summary of divine revelation. It is undoubtedly true at all times, and will ever be, that they who are devoted Christians - who live as the Saviour did - and who carry out his principles always, will experience some form of persecution. It was not then an indifferent matter to God. It is to be remembered that a man may lose his soul far more easily in prosperity than in adversity; and he is on the way to losing his soul when he assesses the value of life by the number of things which he possesses. This was to reverse the lesson of a risen Christ, and to open the way for all laxity. It should be considered as one of the proper qualifications for membership in the church, to be willing to bear persecution, and to resolve not to shrink from any duty in order to avoid it. There is peril when men assess prosperity by material things. There can come a time in a man's life when the company of good people and the presence of good things is simply an embarrassment. The best way to overcome and to banish the false is to live in such a way that the loveliness and the graciousness of the truth is plain for all to see. They love pleasure more than they love God; that's the indictment. The oldest Greek laws disfranchised the man who struck his parents; to strike a father was in Roman law as bad as murder; in the Jewish law honour for father and mother comes high in the list of the Ten Commandments. 2 Timothy 3:12 Commentaries: Indeed, all who desire to live godly in What does 2 Timothy 3:13 mean? Timothy fully knew Paul's good character, which he might gather from his doctrine, manner of life, and purpose; for he gave proofs of his faith (that is, of his integrity and fidelity, or his faith in Christ, his faith concerning another world, by which Paul lived), his long-suffering towards the churches to which he preached and over which he presided, his charity towards all men, and his patience. Let us look at them one by one. He forbad his going on in association with those that dishonour the Lord with vessels to dishonour; but he tells him to follow these things "with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart." They will refuse to recognize the debt they owe both to God and to men. This shows in a clearer light the difference between the true teacher and the false. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines; for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace,Hebrews 13:9. 2 Timothy 3:12, NASB: Indeed, all who want to live in a godly way in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. Their falsity would be demonstrated and they would receive their appropriate reward. (1) that they who make a profession of religion, should come prepared to be persecuted. (iv) The Scriptures are of use for correction. Now you get out your, you know, your green and blue pens and for the inspired ones, we'll underline those with blue and we'll use red, maybe, to underline those that are not inspired, you know and, and so here I am, I'm the authority.Well, the next liberal comes along and he says, Well, no, no, no, he was wrong on that one. This is evidently not the true remedy to abandon the confession of Christ: only an apostate could think of it. "They that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." For "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks" ( Matthew 12:34 ). He had fought the good fight of faith. 2 Timothy 3 - NIV Bible - But mark this: There will be terrible times You have no authority.So if I tell you that some scriptures are not really inspired of God, then I become the authority, not the Bible anymore, because you can't just read the whole Bible and trust it because not all of it is inspired. A true insight would have made them recognise in Jesus the Messiah for whom they waited. Why cannot a man be as simple now as in apostolic times? Confrontation and conflict become inevitable (cf. Or life, or death, or life after death? What am I to believe about man? Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. Judaism had its divine institutions and hopes, but the truth is found in Christendom only: nevertheless in Christendom, who fails to discern Jewish elements and heathenish enormities? The word here is makrothumia ( G3115) ; and makrothumia, as the Greeks used it, usually meant patience with people. Confirmed that Noah was a real person and it was a real event. I am reminded of the prophet of God who spoke concerning Israel, and he said, "They have sown the wind, and now they must reap the whirlwind" ( Hosea 8:7 ). If a man's goods are stolen, he can set to and build up his fortunes again; but if his good name is taken away, irreparable damage has been done. In these terrible days men would be braggarts and arrogant. Persecution and hardships will come, but of two things Paul is sure. I have many scriptures that I don't understand yet. Paul regarded these as man-made things; but the great books for a man's soul were the God-inspired ones which tradition and the experience of men had sanctified. There is love. The page number in Thayer is given, and the column on the page follows the hyphens. If your God is big enough to create the heavens and the earth, no problem, but you see, we stumble on the very first verse. True, he is telling of something which happened later than this, but the wretched story would be the same (Irenaeus: Against Heresies, 1, 13, 3). It means to follow a person spiritually, not only to understand what he says, but also to carry out his ideas and be the kind of person he wishes us to be. The Gnostic insinuators would teach these doctrines to impressionable women. "Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. But of one thing Paul was sure--the days of the deceivers were numbered. That the scripture was given by inspiration of God appears from the majesty of its style,--from the truth, purity, and sublimity, of the doctrines contained in it,--from the harmony of its several parts,--from its power and efficacy on the minds of multitudes that converse with it,--from the accomplishment of many prophecies relating to things beyond all human foresight,--and from the uncontrollable miracles that were wrought in proof of its divine original: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will,Hebrews 2:4. Quite a promise, isn't it? We've just experienced a tremendous demonstration of that in the Los Angeles basin in the last couple of weeks. Finally, we have his assertion of the blessed Lord's care, and his confidence in Him that He would preserve him from all evil to His heavenly kingdom; closing this solemn and touching epistle (it would seem the last words he wrote) with salutations to various saints. The fact is that God loves to make His children mutually dependent; and if we are only humble, there are very few saints from whom we may not derive some good, though not always in the same way. If, in any manner, or in any way, he is subjected to disadvantage on account of his religious opinions, and deprived of any immunities and rights to which he would be otherwise entitled, this is persecution. We must remember that they were Gnostics and that the basic principle of Gnosticism was that spirit was altogether good and matter altogether evil. It is of use to all, for we all need to be instructed, corrected, and reproved: it is of special use to ministers, who are to give instruction, correction, and reproof; and whence can they fetch it better than from the scripture? The volume of the book, the Old Testament, it's all about Jesus Christ. He glanced at it as he consigned it to the flames. But after giving the characteristics and traits of the godly man, Jesus then in the final Beatitudes said, "Blessed are ye, when men shall persecute you, and revile you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake" ( Matthew 5:11 ). Their minds become corrupted and they ultimately become reprobate concerning the faith. Had the Lord Jesus not sent him? The absence of persecution, in any active sense, from the lives of most Christians of this era is generally due to the watered-down version of their Christianity and not to any subsidence of the savage hatred of the darkness for the light. 3:10-13 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, at Lystra, in the persecutions which I underwent; and the Lord rescued me from them all. Rather than a verse-by-verse approach, the authors have crafted chapters that explain and apply key passages in their assigned Bible books. The true leader gives training in living. The doctrine that he preached. Right out of the gate, Second Timothy presents itself as a conservative letter, understanding "conservative" in the most literal sense of the word. This world is in rebellion against God. You can you see what's happened even in the last twenty-five years. That Day of the Lord was to be preceded by a time of terror, when evil would gather itself for its final assault and the world would be shaken to its moral and physical foundations. Love of self is the basic sin, from with all others flow. They will be inflated with a sense of their own importance. Paul completes the story of the things in which Timothy has shared, and must share, with him, by speaking of the experiences of an apostle; and he prefaces that list of experiences by setting down the quality of endurance. He returned after the first missionary journey to visit the Churches he had founded, "strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God" ( Acts 14:22). So don't expect the world to speak well of you or to applaud you for your living a godly life and taking a righteous stand. They thought that eternal life lay in the letter, not in Him of whom the letter testified. They claimed that their children learned the law even from their swaddling clothes and drank it in with their mother's milk. 2 Timothy 3:2 Commentaries: For men will be lovers of self, lovers of It is used in Matthew 8:28 to describe the two Gergesene demoniacs who met Jesus among the tombs. 1 Paul, a an apostle of Christ Jesus b by the will of God according to c the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,. It is well to be exclusive of sin, but of nothing else. What am I to believe about God? But I can't believe what I see in some of these restaurants over here in the Irvine industrial business center. 2 Timothy 3:12 (NASB) Verse Thoughts We live in a fallen world, and there are many challenges that face the believer who has not only trusted Christ for salvation, but is also ready and willing to deny self, take up his cross, follow Christ's example, and say without compromise - Thy will, not mine, be done. If there is no human affection, the family cannot exist. Parakolouthein ( G3877) is indeed the word for the disciple, for it includes the unwavering loyalty of the true comrade, the full understanding of the true scholar and the complete obedience of the dedicated servant. A whole collection of stories gathered round their names. 2 Timothy 3:12 MEANING - kingjamesbibleonline.org (ii) The Scriptures are of use in teaching. If we would know the holy scriptures, we must read and search them daily, as the noble Bereans did, Acts 17:11. Certain of the temporary persecution, he is equally certain of the ultimate glory. Things are very much taking this direction of late, and at the present moment. It can mean that a man is so bitter in his hatred that he will never come to terms with the man with whom he has quarrelled. "But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. When a man's language becomes filthy, obscene and crude, it shows that there's something wrong with him. This chapter has a vivid description of the great apostasy (2 Timothy 3:1-9), signs of which were already present, an appeal to Paul's own inspiring and inspired example (2 Timothy 3:10-15), and one of the most impressive paragraphs in all the Bible with reference to the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures (2 Timothy 3:16,17).For more extensive discussion of the apostasy, the man of . It means to follow a person physically, to stick by him through thick and thin. Why then yield to the enemy? Look at our attitudes towards morality. Verse 1. And a hundred and fifty men can board it and they can submerge and go under the North Pole under the arctic ice. 2. The scriptures we are to know are the holy scriptures; they come from the holy God, were delivered by holy men, contain holy precepts, treat of holy things, and were designed to make us holy and to lead us in the way of holiness to happiness; being called the holy scriptures, they are by this distinguished from profane writings of all sorts, and from those that only treat morality, and common justice and honesty, but do not meddle with holiness. For "all scripture is given by inspiration of God. 2 Timothy 3 1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. The adjective used is philautos, which means self-loving. In those days trade tended to flow down river valleys; Ephesus was at the mouth of the River Cayster, and commanded the trade of one of the richest hinterlands in all Asia Minor. Without natural affection ( 2 Timothy 3:3 ). If they had been more faithful, and more like their Master, would they have always escaped? And come up a hundred days later and be deposited at a port. The deterioration, rapid deterioration so that a mother has to worry when she sends her little child to school because she doesn't know what some kinky character might do, exposing themselves to that beautiful little child or even worse.