Here the apostle, to confirm Timothy in that way wherein he walked. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning, Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus All that live according to the will of God revealed in his word; and to the glory of God, as the end of all their actions; and which the grace of God in the Gospel, and in their own hearts, teaches them; and who have the principles of a godly life from Christ, and derive the fresh supplies of grace and life from him, to maintain it; in whom their life is hid, and who live by faith upon him; all such that live, and that will live so, are desirous of living after this manner; in whom God has wrought in them both to will and to do, and are concerned when it is otherwise with them: these. All that will live godly So opposite to the spirit and practice of the world is the whole of Christianity, that he who gives himself entirely up to God, making the Holy Scriptures the rule of his words and actions, will be less or more reviled and persecuted. Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. Well, Jesus has and He told us what to, what it's about in Luke, the sixteenth chapter. It is well to maintain the largest heart for everything that is really of Christ. The devil is the patron saint of all slanderers and of all slanderers he is chief. The final condemnation of these people is that they retain the outward form of religion but deny its power. And so Paul, you know, how I've lived; my faith, my longsuffering, my love, my patience, and the persecutions and afflictions that came to me. The world is full of these braggarts to this day; the clever know-all's who deceive people into thinking that they are wise, the politicians who claim that their parties have a program which will bring in the Utopia and that they alone are born to be leaders of men, the people who crowd the advertisement columns with claims to give beauty, knowledge or health by their system, the people in the Church who have a kind of ostentatious goodness. The Greek word literally is fully matured or of full age, fully matured, that the man of God might be fully matured. When children are disobedient to their parents, and break through the obligations which they lie under to them both in duty and gratitude, and frequently in interest, having their dependence upon them and their expectation from them, they make the times perilous; for what wickedness will those stick at who will be abusive to their own parents and But shun profane and vain babblings.". 3. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, Friday evenings, you know, everybody out looking for their weekend companion, incontinent, no sexual restraints. In the last days This often means the days of the Messiah, and is sometimes extended in its signification to the destruction of Jerusalem, as this was properly the last days of the Jewish state. He blames the Jews who searched them, because they failed to learn the lesson which they were intended to convey. He did not pull down by his living what he built up by his preaching. God help us. The Platonic Definitions defined the corresponding noun (alazoneia, G212) as: "The claim to good things which a man does not really possess." Here we have him recurring to that which was entirely outside nature, and before its very platform existed. The emphasis of so many people is just on being beautiful, lovers of themselves. And the word perfect of course is always that of completeness. It can sometimes have the meaning of loyalty, or true religion. Regardless of the persecution, it is our duty to live in such a way that the world will know that we are Christians. 2. A man may embrace some absurd opinion, and call it religion; he may adopt some mode of dress irresistibly ludicrous, from the mere love of singularity, and may call it "conscience;" or he may be boorish in his manners, and uncivil in his deportment, outraging all the laws of social life, and may call this "deadness to the world;" and for these, and similar things, he may be contemned, ridiculed, and despised. The Greek is hupomone ( G5281) , which means not a passive sitting down and bearing things but a triumphant facing of them so that even out of evil there can come good. He wants to accustom his mind to expect hardship instead of shirking it. Verse 1. This sort of atmosphere will mark the last days . It appears it was not merely in Rome. And the comfort is that, if prepared to cleave to the will of the Lord alone, we shall have, through His grace, fellowship with the true-hearted. In other words, it's not going to get better for awhile. A form of godliness, a profession of Christian faith without a godly life . Edited by David Platt, Daniel L. Akin, and Tony Merida, this new commentary series, projected to be 48 volumes, takes a Christ-centered approach to expositing each book of the Bible. But the apostle at the same time owns, and loves to own, that which another might perhaps despise. I think we've gone just about as far as we can. Don't expect the world to admire your godly stance. Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics, 7: 2) defined the alazon ( G213) as "the man who pretends to creditable qualities that he does not possess, or possesses in a lesser degree than he makes out." Quite a promise, isn't it? If anyone proposes to accept a set of standards quite different from the world's, he is bound to encounter trouble. Well soon your Bible will be so messed up you wouldn't be able to read it. These things may be expected in the best times, and under the most favorable circumstances; and it is known that a large part of the history of the world, in its relation to the church, is nothing more than a history of persecution. Aspondos ( G786) can mean two things. This is evidently not the true remedy to abandon the confession of Christ: only an apostate could think of it. It is a great happiness to know the holy scriptures from our childhood; and children should betimes get the knowledge of the scriptures. Second Timothy 3:12-13 "Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being. ' according to godliness, 1 Timothy 6:3; Titus 1:1; and in all godliness, 1 Timothy 2:2. But let not a man who will do this, suppose that he has any claim to be numbered among the martyrs, or even entitled to the Christian name. 2 Timothy Greeting. It seems to me, I confess, that if there were simplicity of faith, the Lord would give one eyes to see some at least that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart. (2Baruch 27). Now we see that when Paul was touching the confines of that difficult and most perilous moment when John was to be left alone, he brings out as his last note that very truth which John was to develop with special care and fulness. 2 Timothy 3 Commentary - John Gill's Exposition of the Bible For him the light of eternity already shone strongly on present things, instead of taking him completely out of them. And man has prepared a great fish and they powered it with atomic engines. This time he was a Christian minister, and it was to the reading of the books that he attributed his change. Salem Media Group. Now though it is infallible, inerrant and inspired, I did make a mistake in my message this morning on the speed of Arcturus; it's twelve thousand miles a second, I think I said twelve million. thoroughly furnished unto all good works ( 2 Timothy 3:17 ). What does 2 Timothy 3:12 mean? | BibleRef.com 2 Timothy 3:12, NLT: Yes, and everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. In that large heart which weighed so justly and with single eye, there was a deepening feeling as to all that he saw around him; there was a realizing of the importance of things of which he had said not a word before. The first is the moral character of the source or channel whence Timothy had derived what he knew. It is in terms of these last days that Paul is thinking in this passage. She had been finding life, as she herself said, futile and meaningless. THE QUALITIES OF GODLESSNESS ( 2 Timothy 3:2-5 ). 2 Timothy - Discover Books of The Bible - bible-studys.org Those who would acquaint themselves with the things of God, and be assured of them, must know the holy scriptures, for these are the summary of divine revelation. Such is the meaning of purging himself. [Note: Knight, p. It describes the man who is swept on by passion and impulse to such an extent that he is totally unable to think sensibly. "All scripture is given by inspiration of God. These were graces that Paul was eminent for, and Timothy knew it. He is now looking at the state of disorder in the house of God, instead of contemplating it in its public integrity, as in the first epistle. It is the sign of a man of honour that he pays his debts; and for every man there is a debt to God and there are debts to his fellow-men, which he must remember and repay. In this picture which Paul draws he is thinking in terms familiar to the Jews. And may not their freedom from it prove that they have surrendered the principles of their religion, where they should have stood firm, though the world were arrayed against them? The scriptures we are to know are the holy scriptures; they come from the holy God, were delivered by holy men, contain holy precepts, treat of holy things, and were designed to make us holy and to lead us in the way of holiness to happiness; being called the holy scriptures, they are by this distinguished from profane writings of all sorts, and from those that only treat morality, and common justice and honesty, but do not meddle with holiness. That persecution which will properly furnish any evidence that we are the friends of Christ, must be only that which is for righteousness sake Matthew 5:10, and must be brought upon us in an honest effort to obey the commands of God. Only in the New Testament have we any picture of Jesus, any account of his life and any record of his teaching. 2 Timothy 3:12 MEANING - kingjamesbibleonline.org (8) Using the boldness God gives, don't be ashamed of the imprisoned apostle. Jannes and Jambres were the names of the two magicians that withstood Moses. With his or her commitment to follow Christ faithfully the Christian sets the course of his or her life directly opposite to the course of the world system. It is needful to exercise judgment now. What I believe, I believe because God has said it. I'm afraid that that is also true of us. Xenophon tells us how Cyrus, the Persian king, defined the alazon ( G213) : "The name alazon ( G213) seems to apply to those who pretend that they are richer than they are or braver than they are, and to those who promise to do what they cannot do, and that, too, when it is evident that they do this only for the sake of getting something or making some gain" (Xenophon: Cyropoedia, 2, 2, 12). Seeking the Gospel in Malachi, the Last Book of the Old Testament. "Beloved, consider it not strange concerning the fiery trials which are to try you, as though some strange thing has happened to you" ( 1 Peter 4:12 ). Don't expect the world to applaud when you speak out against evil. It is easy for a professed Christian to avoid persecution, if he yields every point in which religion is opposed to the world. "To make thee wise to salvation through faith." No man is saved unless he is on fire to save his fellow-men. It is often a very great safeguard for the saint of God; for, after all, it makes no small difference who says this or that. Questions are before him more serious than a maintenance of order. Men would become lovers of money (philarguros, G5366) . Our God is much too small. ii. And then again "the husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits." But now there were other reasons for it, namely, that Christians were neglecting godliness and order. 2 Timothy 3:12-13 Commentary | Precept Austin "Put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit but to the subverting of the hearers. "Perilous times shall come." That persecution which will properly furnish any evidence that we are the friends of Christ, must be only that which is "for righteousness sake" Matthew 5:10, and must be brought upon us in an honest effort to obey the commands of God. Timothy needed to realize, as all Christians do, especially those to whom "prosperity theology" appeals, that when a person determines to live a godly life he or she will suffer persecution. I'm just saying, Hey, I am stupid and I lack an understanding. The woman protests that she has never done so and cannot do so. This was always the becoming tone; but now it is imperiously necessary, as well as wise and good. Paul met him on his first missionary journey. This I cannot but consider as a proof of want of faith. Paul cites three instances when he had to suffer for Christ. If, in any manner, or in any way, he is subjected to disadvantage on account of his religious opinions, and deprived of any immunities and rights to which he would be otherwise entitled, this is persecution.