Text -- 2 Timothy 1:11 (NET)

1:11 For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 2Ti 1:11

¹ tn Grk “for which.”

² tc Most mss (א² C D F G Ψ 1739 1881 Ï latt sy co) have ἐθνῶν (eqnwn, “of the Gentiles”) after “teacher.” The shorter reading has poorer external credentials (א* A I 1175 pc), but is preferred because ἐθνῶν probably represents a gloss added by copyists familiar with 1 Tim 2:7. There is no easy explanation for the omission of the word if it were original here.