2 Timothy 1:7

1:7 For God did not give us a Spirit ¹  of fear but of power and love and self-control.

2 Timothy 2:9

2:9 for which I suffer hardship to the point of imprisonment ²  as a criminal, but God’s message ³  is not imprisoned! ⁴ 

2 Timothy 2:17

2:17 and their message will spread its infection ⁵  like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group. ⁶ 

2 Timothy 2:25

2:25 correcting ⁷  opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth ⁸ 

¹ tn Or “a spirit,” denoting the human personality under the Spirit’s influence as in 1 Cor 4:21; Gal 6:1; 1 Pet 3:4. But the reference to the Holy Spirit at the end of this section (1:14) makes it likely that it begins this way also, so that the Holy Spirit is the referent.

² tn Or “chains,” “bonds.”

³ tn Or “word.”

⁴ tn Or “chained,” “bound.”

³ tn Or “eat away.”

⁴ tn Grk “of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, this last clause has been made a new sentence in the translation.

⁴ sn Correcting is the word for “child-training” or “discipline.” It is often positive (training, educating) but here denotes the negative side (correcting, disciplining).

⁵ tn Grk “repentance unto knowledge of the truth.”