10 For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith. Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?
Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple. Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple.
Luke, our well-loved medical friend, and Demas, send you their love. Give my love to the brothers in Laodicea and to Nymphas and the church in their house.
Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me. And I went up by revelation; and I put before them the good news which I was preaching among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were of good name, so that the work which I was or had been doing might not be without effect. But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was made to undergo circumcision:
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Commentary on 2 Timothy 4 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 4
In this chapter,
2Ti 4:1-8
Observe,
2Ti 4:9-15
Here are divers particular matters which Paul mentions to Timothy, now at the closing of the epistle.
2Ti 4:16-22
Here,