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THE MESSAGE
2 Timothy 1:1
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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, for the sake of the promise of life in Christ Jesus:
Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life, which is in Christ Iesus,
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,
From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God. God sent me to tell about the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,
From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus. God himself chose me to be an apostle, and he gave me the promised life that Jesus Christ makes possible.
From: Sha'ul, an emissary of the Messiah Yeshua by God's will, which holds forth a promise of life through being united with Messiah Yeshua
Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, according to promise of life, the [life] which [is] in Christ Jesus,
Greetings from Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus. I am an apostle because God wanted me to be. God sent me to tell people about the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus.
Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ, by the will of God, according to the promesse of life which is in Christ Iesus,
PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God and by the promise of life which is in Jesus Christ,
From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God's will, sent to proclaim the promised life which we have in union with Christ Jesus—
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
Paul, an apostle (special messenger, personally chosen representative) of Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed) by the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, in the hope of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
Sha'ul, an apostle of Yeshua the Messiah through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Messiah Yeshua,
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PAULOS, an apostle of Jeshu Meshiha by the will of Aloha, and on account of the promise of life which is in Jeshu Meshiha,
PAUL, a legate of Jesus the Messiah by the pleasure of God, according to the promise of life which is in Jesus the Messiah;
Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christe by the wyll of God, according to the promise of lyfe, which is in Christ Iesus,
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according to the promise of eternal life,
Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, for proclaiming the promise of the Life which is in Christ Jesus:
Poul, apostle of Jhesu Crist, bi the wille of God, bi the biheest of lijf that is in Crist Jhesu,
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to further the promise of life in Christ Jesus,
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ [fn] by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus. I have been sent out to tell others about the life he has promised through faith in Christ Jesus.
This letter is from Paul, a missionary of Jesus Christ. God has sent me to tell that He has promised life that lasts forever through Christ Jesus.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, for the sake of the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, through the will of God, - according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus; -
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus:
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
Paul an Apostle of Iesu Christ by the will of God to preache the promes of lyfe which lyfe is in Christ Iesu.
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according to a promise of life that [is] in Christ Jesus,
Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ, by the wyll of God, to preach the promes of ye life which is in Christ Iesu.
Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, appointed by God to declare the promise, which Jesus Christ has made of eternal life;
I, Paul, a cowboy for Christ, chosen by God, gather the lost and bring back those who have strayed away by telling others of the life promised to those who put their faith in Jesus.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
an: Romans 1:1, 2 Corinthians 1:1
the promise: John 5:24, John 5:39, John 5:40, John 6:40, John 6:54, John 10:28, John 17:3, Romans 5:21, Romans 6:23, 2 Corinthians 1:20, Ephesians 3:6, Titus 1:2, Hebrews 9:15, 2 Peter 1:3, 2 Peter 1:4, 1 John 2:25, 1 John 5:11-13
Reciprocal: Acts 22:14 - hath Galatians 1:1 - but Galatians 3:22 - that Colossians 3:4 - our 2 Timothy 1:10 - and hath
Cross-References
God spoke: "Earth, green up! Grow all varieties of seed-bearing plants, Every sort of fruit-bearing tree." And there it was. Earth produced green seed-bearing plants, all varieties, And fruit-bearing trees of all sorts. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning— Day Three.
God made two big lights, the larger to take charge of Day, The smaller to be in charge of Night; and he made the stars. God placed them in the heavenly sky to light up Earth And oversee Day and Night, to separate light and dark. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning— Day Four.
God spoke: "Swarm, Ocean, with fish and all sea life! Birds, fly through the sky over Earth!" God created the huge whales, all the swarm of life in the waters, And every kind and species of flying birds. God saw that it was good. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Ocean! Birds, reproduce on Earth!" It was evening, it was morning— Day Five.
When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses two tablets of Testimony, slabs of stone, written with the finger of God.
Then on the twenty-fourth day of this month, the People of Israel gathered for a fast, wearing burlap and faces smudged with dirt as signs of repentance. The Israelites broke off all relations with foreigners, stood up, and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their parents. While they stood there in their places, they read from the Book of The Revelation of God , their God, for a quarter of the day. For another quarter of the day they confessed and worshiped their God . A group of Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani—stood on the platform and cried out to God , their God, in a loud voice. The Levites Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, "On your feet! Bless God , your God, for ever and ever!" Blessed be your glorious name, exalted above all blessing and praise! You're the one, God , you alone; You made the heavens, the heavens of heavens, and all angels; The earth and everything on it, the seas and everything in them; You keep them all alive; heaven's angels worship you!
I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?
The skies were made by God 's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out. He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg.
What a wildly wonderful world, God ! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations. Oh, look—the deep, wide sea, brimming with fish past counting, sardines and sharks and salmon. Ships plow those waters, and Leviathan, your pet dragon, romps in them. All the creatures look expectantly to you to give them their meals on time. You come, and they gather around; you open your hand and they eat from it. If you turned your back, they'd die in a minute— Take back your Spirit and they die, revert to original mud; Send out your Spirit and they spring to life— the whole countryside in bloom and blossom.
God 's strong name is our help, the same God who made heaven and earth.
With Lady Wisdom, God formed Earth; with Madame Insight, he raised Heaven. They knew when to signal rivers and springs to the surface, and dew to descend from the night skies.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ,.... Not of men, nor by men, but by Jesus Christ, from whom he was sent; by whom he was qualified; in whose name he came, and ministered; and whom he preached. Of his name Paul, and of his office, as an apostle,
:- into which office he came
by the will of God; not by the will of man, no, not of the best of men, of James, Cephas, or John, or any of the other apostles; nor by his own will, he did not thrust himself into this office, or take this honour upon himself; nor was it owing to any merits of his, which he always disclaims, but to the will and grace of God; it was by the secret determining will of God, that he was from all eternity separated unto the Gospel of Christ; and it was by the revealed will of God to the church, that he, with Barnabas, was set apart to the ministry of the word; see Romans 1:1.
According to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus; or "with respect unto it"; this points at the sum and substance, or subject matter, and end of his apostleship, for which this grace was given to him, which was to publish the free promise of life and salvation by Jesus Christ. By "life" here is meant, not this corporeal life, which, and a continuation of it, were promised in the covenant of works, on condition of man's obedience to it; but eternal life, the promise of which is a free promise made by God, of his own free sovereign will and pleasure, in the covenant of grace, from everlasting; and is an absolute and unconditional one, not at all depending upon the works of the law, or obedience to it; see Romans 14:16 and this promise is "in Christ", in whom all the promises are yea and arisen: for it was made before the world began, Titus 1:2 when the persons on whose account it was made were not in actual being; but Christ, their head and representative, then existed; and to him it was given, and into his hands was it put for them, where it is sure to all the seed; and not only the promise, but the life itself is in him, and which is here intended. Christ, as Mediator, asked it of his Father for all his people, and he gave it to him, where it is hid safe and secure. Christ is the Prince or author of life; he is the procuring cause of it; he was sent, and came, that his sheep might have it; he gave his flesh, his human nature for it; and by his sufferings and death removed all obstructions which sin had thrown in the way, and opened the way for their enjoyment of it; and he is the giver of it to as many as the Father has given him; nor is it to be had in any other way, or of any other; but of him; and it lies in the knowledge of him, communion with him, and conformity to him. Now it is the business, of Gospel ministers, not to direct persons to work for life, or to seek to obtain eternal life by their own works of righteousness, but to hold forth the word of life, or to show men the way of life and salvation by Christ alone.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, - See the notes at Romans 1:1.
By the will of God - Called to be an apostle in accordance with the divine will and purpose; see the notes at Galatians 1:1.
According to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus - In accordance with the great promise of eternal life through the Saviour; that is, he was called to be an apostle to carry out the great purpose of human salvation; compare Ephesians 3:6. God has made a promise of life to mankind through faith in the Lord Jesus, and it was with reference to this that he was called to the apostleship.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO TIMOTHY.
Chronological Notes relative to this Epistle.
-Year of the Constantinopolitan era of the world, or that used by the Byzantine historians, 5573.
-Year of the Alexandrian era of the world, 5567.
-Year of the Antiochian era of the world, 5557.
-Year of the Julian period, 4775.
-Year of the world, according to Archbishop Usher, 4069
-Year of the world, according to Eusebius, in his Chronicon, 4293.
-Year of the minor Jewish era of the world, or that in common use, 3825.
-Year of the Greater Rabbinical era of the world, 4424.
-Year from the Flood, according to Archbishop Usher, and the English Bible, 2413.
-Year of the Cali yuga, or Indian era of the Deluge, 3167.
-Year of the era of Iphitus, or since the first commencement of the Olympic games, 1005.
-Year of the era of Nabonassar, king of Babylon, 812.
-Year of the CCXIth Olympiad, 1.
-Year from the building of Rome, according to Fabius Pictor, 812.
-Year from the building of Rome, according to Frontinus, 816.
-Year from the building of Rome, according to the Fasti Capitolini, 817.
-Year from the building of Rome, according to Varro, which was that most generally used, 818.
-Year of the era of the Seleucidae, 377.
-Year of the Caesarean era of Antioch, 113.
-Year of the Julian era, 110.
-Year of the Spanish era, 103.
-Year from the birth of Jesus Christ according to Archbishop Usher, 69
-Year of the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 65 or 66.
-Year of Gessius Florus, governor of the Jews, 1.
-Year of Vologesus, king of the Parthians, 16.
-Year of L. C. Gallus, governor of Syria, 1.
-Year of Matthias, high priest of the Jews, 3.
-Year of the Dionysian period, or Easter Cycle, 66.
-Year of the Grecian Cycle of nineteen years, or Common Golden Number, 9; or the first after the third embolismic.
-Year of the Jewish Cycle of nineteen years, 6, or the second embolismic.
-Year of the Solar Cycle, 18.
-Dominical Letter, it being the first after the Bissextile, or Leap Year, F.
-Day of the Jewish Passover, according to the Roman computation of time, the VIIth of the ides of April, or, in our common mode of reckoning, the seventh of April, which happened on this year on the day after the Jewish Sabbath.
-Easter Sunday, the day after the ides of April, or the XVIIIth of the Calends of May, named by the Jews the 22d of Nisan or Abib, and by Europeans in general, the 14th of April.
-Epact, or age of the moon on the 22d of March, (the day of the earliest Easter Sunday possible,) 28.
-Epact, according to the present mode of computation, or the moon's age on New Year's day, or the Calends of January, 5.
-Monthly Epacts, or age of the moon on the Calends of each month respectively, (beginning with January,) 5, 7, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 12, 14, 14.
-Number of Direction, or the number of days from the twenty-first of March to the Jewish Passover, 17.
-Year of the reign of Caius Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, the fifth Roman emperor computing from Augustus Caesar, 12.
-Roman Consuls, A. Licinius Nerva Silanus, and M. Vestinius Atticus; the latter of whom was succeeded by Anicius Cerealis, on July 1st.
Dr. Lardner and others suppose this epistle to have been written in A. D. 56, i.e. nine years earlier than is stated above. See the preface to the First Epistle to Timothy, where this point is largely considered, and also the general observations prefixed to the Acts of the Apostles.
CHAPTER I.
Paul's address to Timothy, and declaration of his affection for
him, 1-4.
His account of the piety of Timothy's mother and grandmother,
and the religious education they had given their son, 5.
He exhorts him to stir up the gift of God that is in him, and
not to be ashamed of the testimony of the Lord, 6-8.
How God has saved them that believe; and how Christ has brought
life and immortality to light by the Gospel, 9,10.
The apostle's call to preach it, and the persecutions which he
had been obliged in consequence to endure, 11, 12.
Timothy is exhorted to hold fast the form of sound words,
13, 14.
And is informed of the apostasy of several in Asia: and
particularly of Phygellus and Hermogenes, 15.
And of the great kindness of Onesiphorus to the apostle in his
imprisonment, 16-18.
NOTES ON CHAP. I.
Verse 2 Timothy 1:1. Paul an apostle — St. Paul at once shows his office, the authority on which he held it, and the end for which it was given him. He was an apostle - an extraordinary ambassador from heaven. He had his apostleship by the will of God - according to the counsel and design of God's infinite wisdom and goodness. And he was appointed that he might proclaim that eternal life which God had in view for mankind by the incarnation of his Son Jesus Christ, and which was the end of all the promises he had made to men, and the commandments he had delivered to all his prophets since the world began. The mention of this life was peculiarly proper in the apostle, who had now the sentence of death in himself, and who knew that he must shortly seal the truth with his blood. His life was hidden with Christ in God; and he knew that, as soon as he should be absent from the body, he should be present with the Lord. With these words he both comforted himself and his son Timothy.
