2 Timothy 4:14

4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm. ¹  The Lord will repay him in keeping with his deeds. ² 

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 

[4:14]  ¹ tn Grk “showed me much evil.”

[4:14]  ² sn An allusion to Ps 28:4.

[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.”