13 Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Gospel of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Gospel;
Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won't watch, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come upon you.
Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
Buy the truth, and don't sell it: Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
Nevertheless, hold firmly that which you have, until I come.
Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth. Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you. Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding. Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.
She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
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Commentary on 2 Timothy 1 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 1
After the introduction (v. 1, 2) we have,
2Ti 1:1-5
Here is,
2Ti 1:6-14
Here is an exhortation and excitation of Timothy to his duty (v. 6): I put thee in remembrance. The best men need remembrancers; what we know we should be reminded of. 2 Pt. 3:1, I write this, to stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance.
2Ti 1:15-18
Having (v. 13, 14) exhorted Timothy to hold fast,