True (γνησιω). Legitimate, not spurious. Old word from γινομα, but Pauline only in N.T. (2 Corinthians 8:8; [Reference…

Such appears to have been the state of things when the apostle was compelled suddenly to leave Ephesus. He had until then directed the affairs of t…

My own son in the faith.—Timothy was Saint Paul’s very own son. No fleshly relationship existed between the two, but a closer and …

Notice the apostle's triple salutation, "Grace, mercy, and peace."

Whenever Paul writes to a church, he wishes "grace and peace"; but to a m…

The letter is addre ed to “Timothy my true son in the faith.” Elsewhere Paul refers to him as “my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord” ([R…

To Timothy my own son This commendation expresses no small praise. Paul means by it that he acknowledges Timothy to be a true and not an i…

Unto Timothy my own son in the faith
Not in the flesh, or by natural descent, but in a spiritual sense, in the faith…

Jesus Christ is a Christian's hope; all our hopes of eternal life are built upon him, and Christ is in us the hope of glory.

The apostle see…

1. This letter is divided into the greeting and the main me age, which begins with the phrase as I urged you.

   In the …