2 Timothy 3:10

Continue in What You Have Learned

3:10 You, however, ¹  have followed my teaching, my ²  way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

2 Timothy 1:9

1:9 He is the one who saved us ³  and called us with a holy calling, not based on ⁴  our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began, ⁵ 

[3:10]  ¹ sn There is a strong emphasis on the pronoun you in contrast to the people described in vv. 2-9.

[3:10]  ² tn The possessive “my” occurs only at the beginning of the list but is positioned in Greek to apply to each of the words in the series.

[1:9]  ³ tn More literally, “who saved us,” as a description of God in v. 8. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:9]  ⁴ tn Or “according to,” or “by.”

[1:9]  ⁵ tn Grk “before eternal times.”