2 Timothy 1:3

Contextual Overview

¹Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus, ¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, in keeping with the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus, ¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus, ¹Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus, ¹ 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. ¹ Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, in the hope of the life which is in Christ Jesus, ¹ Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, according to promise of life, the [life] which [is] in Christ Jesus, ¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God's will, for the promise of life in Christ Jesus: ¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, ¹ Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according to the promise of eternal life,

Bible Verse Review
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I thank: Romans 1:8, Ephesians 1:16

whom: 2 Timothy 1:5, 2 Timothy 3:15, Acts 22:3, Acts 24:14, Acts 26:4, Acts 27:23, Galatians 1:14

with: Acts 23:1, Acts 24:16, Romans 1:9, Romans 9:1, 2 Corinthians 1:12, 1 Timothy 1:5, 1 Timothy 1:19, Hebrews 13:8

that: Romans 1:9, 1 Thessalonians 1:2, 1 Thessalonians 1:3, 1 Thessalonians 3:10

night: Luke 2:37

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 12:23 - God forbid Nehemiah 1:6 - day and night Psalms 1:2 - day Psalms 22:2 - I cry Psalms 88:1 - I have Luke 18:7 - which Romans 6:17 - But Ephesians 6:18 - Praying Philippians 1:3 - upon Colossians 1:3 - praying Colossians 1:9 - do 1 Thessalonians 2:9 - night 1 Thessalonians 3:6 - and that Philemon 1:4 - General 1 Peter 3:16 - a good

Cross-References

Job 36:30
See how he scatters his lightning about him, bathing the depths of the sea.

Job 36:30
See how he scatters his lightning about him, bathing the depths of the sea.

Job 36:30
Behold, He spreads His lightning about Him,And He covers the depths of the sea.

Job 36:30
"Behold, He spreads His lightning about Him, And He covers the depths of the sea.

Job 36:30
Behold, he doth stretch his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea.

Job 36:30
Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

Job 36:30
Look, He scatters His light upon it, And covers the depths of the sea.

Job 36:30
Behold, He spreads His light about Him, and He covers the bottom of the sea.

Job 36:30
Look, he spreads lightning all over the sky and covers the deepest part of the ocean.

Job 36:30
Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I thank God,.... After the inscription and salutation follows the preface to the epistle; which contains a thanksgiving to God upon Timothy's account, and has a tendency to engage his attention to what he was about to write to him in the body of the epistle. God is the object of praise and thanksgiving, both as the God of nature and providence, and as the God of all grace; for every good thing comes from him, and therefore he ought to have the glory of it; nor should any glory, as though they had not received it: and he is here described, as follows,

whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience; the apostle served God in the precepts of the law, as in the hands of Christ, and as written upon his heart by the Spirit of God, in which he delighted after the inward man, and which he served with his regenerated mind; and also in the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, in which he was very diligent and laborious, faithful and successful: and this God, whom he served, was the God of his "forefathers", of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and of Benjamin, of whose tribe he was, and also of his more immediate ancestors. The Ethiopic version renders it, "from my original"; for though he preached the Gospel of Christ, and asserted the abrogation of the ceremonial law, yet he worshipped the one, true, and living God, the God of Israel, and was not an apostate from the true religion, as his enemies would insinuate: and this service of his was performed with a "pure conscience": every man has a conscience, but the conscience of every natural man is defiled with sin; and that is only a pure one, which is sprinkled and purged with the blood of Christ; and whereby a person is only fitted to serve the living God, without the incumbrance of dead works, and slavish fear, and with faith and cheerfulness; and such a conscience the apostle had, and with such an one he served God. For this refers not to his serving of God, and to his conscience, while a Pharisee and a persecutor; for however moral was his conduct and conversation then, and with what sincerity and uprightness soever he behaved, his conscience was not a pure one. He goes on to observe what he thanked God for,

that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; that God had laid him upon his heart, and that he had such reason to remember him at the throne of grace continually. We learn from hence, that the apostle prayed constantly night and day; and if so great a man as he stood in need of continual prayer, much more we; and that in his prayers he was not unmindful of his friends, though at a distance from him; and in both these he is to be imitated: it becomes us to pray without ceasing: to pray always, and not faint and give out, to pray every day and night; and to pray for others as well as for ourselves, for all the saints, yea, for our enemies, as well as for our friends.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers - Paul reckoned among his forefathers the patriarchs and the holy men of former times, as being of the same nation with himself, though it may be that he also included his more immediate ancestors, who, for anything known to the contrary, may have been distinguished examples of piety. His own parents, it is certain, took care that he should be trained up in the ways of religion; compare the Philippians 3:4-5 notes; Acts 26:4-5. The phrase “from my forefathers,” probably means, after the example of my ancestors. He worshipped the same God; he held substantially the same truths; he had the same hope of the resurrection and of immortality; he trusted to the same Saviour having come, on whom they relied as about to come. His was not, therefore, a different religion from theirs; it was the same religion carried out and perfected. The religion of the Old Testament and the New is essentially the same; see the notes at Acts 23:6.

With pure conscience - see the notes at Acts 23:1.

That without ceasing - compare the Romans 12:12 note; 1 Thessalonians 5:17 note.

I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day - see the notes at Philippians 1:3-4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Timothy 1:3. Whom I serve from my forefathers — Being born a Jew, I was carefully educated in the knowledge of the true God, and the proper manner of worshipping him.

With pure conscience — Ever aiming to please him, even in the time when through ignorance I persecuted the Church.

Without ceasing I have remembrance of thee — The apostle thanks God that he has constant remembrance of Timothy in his prayers. It is a very rare thing now in the Christian Church, that a man particularly thanks God that he is enabled to pray for OTHERS. And yet he that can do this most must have an increase of that brotherly love which the second greatest commandment of God requires: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. It is also a great blessing to be able to maintain the spirit of a pure friendship, especially through a considerable lapse of time and absence. He that can do so may well thank God that he is saved from that fickleness and unsteadiness of mind which are the bane of friendships, and the reproach of many once warm-hearted friends.