6:20 O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid 1 the profane chatter and absurdities 2 of so-called “knowledge.” 3
1:18 I put this charge 4 before you, Timothy my child, in keeping with the prophecies once spoken about you, 5 in order that with such encouragement 6 you may fight the good fight.
1 tn Grk “avoiding.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
2 tn Or “contradictions.”
3 tn Grk “the falsely named knowledge.”
1 sn This charge refers to the task Paul described to Timothy in vv. 3-7 above.
2 sn The prophecies once spoken about you were apparently spoken at Timothy’s ordination (cf. 1 Tim 4:14) and perhaps spoke of what God would do through him. Thus they can encourage him in his work, as the next clause says.
3 tn Grk “that by them you might fight…” (a reference to the prophecies which can encourage him in his work).