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Selected Verse: 2 Timothy 1:1 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ti 1:1 |
King James |
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
This Epistle is the last testament and swan-like death song of Paul [BENGEL].
according to the promise of life . . . in Christ--Paul's apostleship is in order to carry into effect this promise. Compare "according to the faith . . . in hope of eternal life . . . promise," &c. (Tit 1:1-2). This "promise of life in Christ" (compare Ti2 1:10; Ti2 2:8) was needed to nerve Timothy to fortitude amidst trials, and to boldness in undertaking the journey to Rome, which would be attended with much risk (Ti2 1:8). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, - See the notes at Rom 1:1.
By the will of God - Called to be an apostle in accordance with the divine will and purpose; see the notes at Gal 1:1.
According to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus - In accordance with the great promise of eternal life through the Saviour; that is, he was called to be an apostle to carry out the great purpose of human salvation; compare Eph 3:6. God has made a promise of life to mankind through faith in the Lord Jesus, and it was with reference to this that he was called to the apostleship. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
An apostle by the will of God
So 2nd Corinthians, Ephesians, Colossians. 1st Corinthians adds called or by call (κλητὸς).
According to the promise, etc. (κατ' ἐπαγγελίαν)
Αποστόλος κατὰ does not appear in any of the Pauline salutations. In 1 Timothy, κατ' ἐπιταγὴν according to the commandment, and in Titus κατὰ πίστιν etc., according to the faith, etc. Κατ' ἐπαγγελίαν, though in other connections, Act 13:23; Gal 3:29. Ἑπαγγελία, primarily announcement, but habitually promise in N.T. In Pastorals only here and Ti1 4:8. With the promise of the life in Christ goes the provision for its proclamation. Hence the apostle, in proclaiming "ye shall live; through Christ," is an apostle according to the promise.
Of life which is in Christ Jesus
The phrase promise of life only here and Ti1 4:8. oP. Life in Christ is a Pauline thought. See Rom 8:2; Co2 4:10; Rom 6:2-14; Gal 2:19, Gal 2:20; Col 3:4; Phi 1:21. It is also a Johannine thought; see Joh 1:4; Joh 3:15; Joh 6:25; Joh 14:6; Jo1 5:11. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Paul an apostle - St. Paul at once shows his office, the authority on which he held it, and the end for which it was given him. He was an apostle - an extraordinary ambassador from heaven. He had his apostleship by the will of God - according to the counsel and design of God's infinite wisdom and goodness. And he was appointed that he might proclaim that eternal life which God had in view for mankind by the incarnation of his Son Jesus Christ, and which was the end of all the promises he had made to men, and the commandments he had delivered to all his prophets since the world began. The mention of this life was peculiarly proper in the apostle, who had now the sentence of death in himself, and who knew that he must shortly seal the truth with his blood. His life was hidden with Christ in God; and he knew that, as soon as he should be absent from the body, he should be present with the Lord. With these words he both comforted himself and his son Timothy. |
8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
23 Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus: