2 Timothy 1

2 Timothy 1:1

That no [man] go beyond. Beyond the bounds of purity, so as to wrong his brother. In our age, to assail the purity of wife or daughter is counted as a fearful crime against the family. The Lord [is] the avenger. He will punish the adulterer, or libertine.

2 Timothy 1:2

Unto holiness. The Christian calling demands purity of life.

2 Timothy 1:3

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God. Who considers not the rights and welfare of his fellow-beings, and invades the purity of the home, let him know that it is God he despises, not man. God has required of him holiness instead of uncleanness. Who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. The temple of the Holy Spirit must be holy. To defile it, that is ourselves, is to insult God.

2 Timothy 1:4

But as touching brotherly love. This subject springs out of 1 Thessalonians 4:6. For ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. The whole gospel teaches you to love one another. When you are born of God, you are his children and all brethren. As Christ loved the brethren, so must you if you follow him.

2 Timothy 1:5

And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren. Their conduct showed their brotherly love.

2 Timothy 1:6

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business. The Greeks were naturally a restless people, often given to intermeddling in the business of other people. And to work with your own hands, as we commanded you. A Christian must not be an idler. A “loafer” cannot show forth the life of Christ. We gather, elsewhere, that some brethren at Thessalonica thought the time so short until the Lord would come that work was unnecessary.

2 Timothy 1:7

That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without. Becomingly in the sight of those without. It would be a reproach if the heathen could say, “This new religion makes men idle and brings them to beggary”. And [that] ye may have lack of nothing. The necessaries supplied by labor are especially meant.

2 Timothy 1:8

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren. It seems that the Thessalonian brethren, expecting the speedy coming of the Lord, mourned over some of their number who had died, counting it a great loss that they did not live to meet Jesus. Concerning them who are asleep. What we call death is only falling asleep in the arms of our Lord.

2 Timothy 1:9

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, etc. If we believe in the death and resurrection of Christ, we must believe also that all who sleep in him will be raised with him.

2 Timothy 1:10

For this we say. He now explains how it will be the Lord’s coming. We which are alive [and] remain. We who are on the earth when the Lord comes, will not precede those who died in the Lord to meet him.

2 Timothy 1:11

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven. They seemed to have thought that the living saints would hurry to meet the Lord, and that the dead would be powerless to follow. On the contrary, Christ comes to them. He will descend. With a shout. The voice of an archangel. The voice of command. With the trumpet of God. The trumpet blast as a signal and a summons. The dead in Christ shall rise first. Before the living are gathered, all the saints who slept in Christ shall be gathered around him. In the final day, the first act is the gathering of the departed saints; the next, the gathering of the living saints.

2 Timothy 1:12

Then we . . . together with them. All the church, the saints of past ages, and the saints of the last age, shall ascend together to meet the Lord. So shall we ever be with the Lord. That glorious meeting shall never end.

2 Timothy 1:13

Wherefore comfort one another with these words. Cheer each other with these assurances. Tell the mourning ones that when they are called to meet the Lord they will find their own sleeping ones in the glorious company.

2 Timothy 1:15

Closing Admonitions SUMMARY OF I THESSALONIANS 5: The Time of the Lord’s Coming Unknown. Will Be Sudden. Hence, Let Us Not Be Asleep. Let Us Have Our Armor on. Mutual Duties of Shepherds and Flock. Christian Life. Benediction. But of the times and the seasons. Especially the time of the Lord’s coming, which is the subject in the conclusion of chapter 4. Ye have no need that I write unto you. They had been instructed on this subject.

2 Timothy 1:16

For yourselves know perfectly. They had been fully taught that the time of the Lord’s coming was unrevealed, and that it would be unexpected. Compare Matthew 24:43 2 Thessalonians 2:2 2 Peter 3:10 Joe 1:15. The day of the Lord. Not alone, the day of each individual’s death, nor the destruction of Jerusalem, not of the final coming of the Lord at the end of the world, but rather it may be applied to all of these. As a thief in the night. Without warning. Compare Lu 12:39 Revelation 3:3.

2 Timothy 1:17

For when they shall say, Peace and safety. When the thoughtless are persuading themselves that there is no ground for apprehension, then sudden destruction cometh upon them. Then destruction shall come as suddenly as the pangs of childbirth.

2 Timothy 1:18

Ye, brethren, are not in darkness. The Christian has been fully instructed, is a child of the light, and knows that he must always be ready. He follows the Light of the World (John 8:12 9:5).