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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

提摩太后书 1:17

他竟然來到羅馬,迫切地尋找我,結果找到了。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Beneficence;   Diligence;   Kindness;   Onesiphorus;   Rome;   Thankfulness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Brotherly Love;   Love;   Love-Hatred;   Rome;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Diligence;   Love to Man;   Prisons;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Onesiphorus;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gifts of the spirit;   Rome;   Timothy, letters to;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Onesiphorus;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ephesus;   Onesiphorus;   Timothy, the Second Epistle to;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ephesus;   Onesiphorus;   Phygelus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Onesiphorus;   Paul the Apostle;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Paul;   Prayer;   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Onesiphorus;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Onesiph'orus;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Onesiphorus;   Timotheus;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Pastoral Epistles, the;   Paul, the Apostle;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 17;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
反 倒 在 罗 马 的 时 候 , 殷 勤 的 找 我 , 并 且 找 着 了 。

Contextual Overview

15 You know that everyone in Asia has left me, even Phygelus and Hermogenes. 16 May the Lord show mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, who has often helped me and was not ashamed that I was in prison. 17 When he came to Rome, he looked eagerly for me until he found me. 18 May the Lord allow him to find mercy from the Lord on that day. You know how many ways he helped me in Ephesus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Acts 28:30, Acts 28:31

Reciprocal: Acts 2:10 - strangers Acts 21:4 - finding Hebrews 6:10 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 9:13
I am putting my rainbow in the clouds as the sign of the agreement between me and the earth.
Job 38:12
"Have you ever ordered the morning to begin, or shown the dawn where its place was
Psalms 8:1

For the director of music. On the gittith. A psalm of David.

Lord our Lord, your name is the most wonderful name in all the earth! It brings you praise in heaven above.
Psalms 8:3
I look at your heavens, which you made with your fingers. I see the moon and stars, which you created.
Acts 13:47
This is what the Lord told us to do, saying: ‘I have made you a light for the nations; you will show people all over the world the way to be saved.'" Isaiah 49:6

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But when he was in Rome,.... Upon some business or another, where the apostle was a prisoner:

he sought me out very diligently, and found me; as there might be many prisons in Rome, he went from one to another, till he found him; and was one of those to whom Christ will say hereafter, "I was in prison and ye came unto me", Matthew 25:36 or the reason of his going from place to place in quest of him was this; the apostle was not in any particular place of confinement, but had a lodging where he was kept by a soldier, and which with some difficulty Onesiphorus found out: the manner of his bonds was this; he had a long chain fastened at one end to his right arm, and at the other to the left arm of the soldier that kept him, who constantly attended him in this form, wherever he went; and it is possible that in this way he might have liberty to go about and visit his friends; and this might still make it more difficult for Onesiphorus to find him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But when he was in Rome - What was the employment of Onesiphorus is not known. It may have been that he was a merchant, and had occasion to visit Rome on business. At all events, he was at pains to search out the apostle, and his attention was the more valuable because it cost him trouble to find him. It is not everyone, even among professors of religion, who in a great and splendid city would be at the trouble to search out a Christian brother, or even a minister, who was a prisoner, and endeavor to relieve his sorrows. This man, so kind to the great apostle, will be among those to whom the Saviour will say, at the final judgment, “I was in prison, and ye came unto me;” Matthew 25:36.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. When he was in Rome — Onesiphorus was no doubt an Asiatic, (probably an Ephesian, see below,) who had frequent business at Rome; and when he came sought out the apostle, who, it is supposed, had been confined in some close and private prison, (see the preface,) so that it was with great difficulty he could find him out. This man had entertained the apostle when he was at Ephesus, and now he sought him out at Rome. Pure love feels no loads. Here was a true friend, one that sticketh closer than a brother.


 
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