2Ti 4:1-18 - Commentary

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Text -- 2 Timothy 4:1-18 (NET)

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Charge to Timothy Repeated

4:1 I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 4:2 Preach the message, be ready whether it is convenient or not, reprove, rebuke, exhort with complete patience and instruction. 4:3 For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things. 4:4 And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths. 4:5 You, however, be self-controlled in all things, endure hardship, do an evangelist’s work, fulfill your ministry. 4:6 For I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for me to depart is at hand. 4:7 I have competed competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith! 4:8 Finally the crown of righteousness is reserved for me. The Lord, the righteous Judge, will award it to me in that day– and not to me only, but also to all who have set their affection on his appearing.

Travel Plans and Concluding Greetings

4:9 Make every effort to come to me soon. 4:10 For Demas deserted me, since he loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia. 4:11 Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is a great help to me in ministry. 4:12 Now I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus. 4:13 When you come, bring with you the cloak I left in Troas with Carpas and the scrolls, especially the parchments. 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him in keeping with his deeds. 4:15 You be on guard against him too, because he vehemently opposed our words. 4:16 At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me– may they not be held accountable for it. 4:17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed for all the Gentiles to hear. And so I was delivered from the lion’s mouth! 4:18 The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed and will bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever! Amen.

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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:

· Alexander the son of Simon the Cyrenian who was compelled to carry the cross of Jesus,a leading man of Jerusalem when Peter and John were tried there,a man who was converted but who afterwards apostatised

· Carpus a Christian man who was a friend of Paul

· Crescens a christian man who worked with Paul

· Dalmatia a Roman province, on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea, also called Illyricum

· Demas a man who worked with Paul and later deserted him

· Ephesus a town in western Asia Minor at the mouth of the Cayster River

· Galatia a nation, and later a Roman province, in central Asia Minor

· Gentile a non-Jewish person

· Luke the man who wrote the book of Luke and the book of Acts

· Mark a nephew of Barnabas and companion of Paul; author of the Gospel of Mark

· Thessalonica a town of Macedonia on the Thermaic Gulf (Gulf of Salonika)

· Titus a Christian Greek man who accompanied Paul and was left in Crete to settle the churches there

· Troas a town in northwest Asia Minor

· Tychicus a man who was a fellow worker with Paul

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Verse Notes / Footnotes NET Notes

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 2Ti 4:2 Or “encourage.”

NET Notes: 2Ti 4:3 Grk “having an itching in regard to hearing,” “having itching ears.”

NET Notes: 2Ti 4:4 These myths were legendary tales characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus and Crete. See parallels in 1 Tim 1:4; 4:7; and Titus 1:14.

NET Notes: 2Ti 4:5 Or “sober,” “temperate.”

NET Notes: 2Ti 4:6 Grk “of my departure.”

NET Notes: 2Ti 4:7 The expression I have competed well (Grk “I have competed the good competition”) uses words that may refer to a race or to a boxing or wre...

NET Notes: 2Ti 4:8 Grk “all who have loved.”

NET Notes: 2Ti 4:10 For location see JP1 C1; JP2 C1; JP3 C1; JP4 C1.

NET Notes: 2Ti 4:11 Or “in serving me.”

NET Notes: 2Ti 4:12 For location see JP1 D2; JP2 D2; JP3 D2; JP4 D2.

NET Notes: 2Ti 4:14 An allusion to Ps 28:4.

NET Notes: 2Ti 4:15 Grk “against whom,” as a continuation of the previous clause. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence w...

NET Notes: 2Ti 4:17 Grk “might be completely fulfilled.”

NET Notes: 2Ti 4:18 Grk “unto the ages of the ages,” an emphatic way of speaking about eternity in Greek.

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