Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.
II Timothy 3
- About the title: Being in a maze causes confusion. This is what happens in the Last “Days”.
II Timothy 3:1 But know this, that in the last days (times of stress) perilous times will come:
II Timothy 3:2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
II Timothy 3:3 unloving, unforgiving (irreconcilable), slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,
II Timothy 3:4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
II Timothy 3:5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
II Timothy 3:6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
II Timothy 3:7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
II Timothy 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;
- Extra-Biblical writings
- Jannes and Jambres were Pharaoh’s two magicians who stood against Moses in Exodus 7:11
- Origen (historian) says that there was an apocryphal book called The Book of Jannes and Jambres, containing details of their exploits.
- This book, known as The Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres the magicians, exists in some Greek fragments present in the Chester Beatty Papyri No XVI (which has been edited and translated by Albert Pietersma[3]), and in an extensive Ethiopic fragment which was discovered in 2014.[4] It was also probably known to the Qumran community, since the Qumran community refers to one of the magicians by the name of Jannes.[5] The Testament of Solomon also refers to the magicians by the name of Jannes and Jambres.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jannes_and_Jambres - [3] Pietersma A. The Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres Erho,
- [4] Ted; Krueger, Frederic; Hoffmann, Matthias (2016). “Neues von Pharaos Zauberern”. Welt und Umwelt der Bibel. 2: 70–72. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- [5] “For in times past, Moses and Aaron stood in the power of the Prince of Lights, and Belial raised up Yannes and his brother in his cunning when seeking to do evil to Israel the first time.” The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation; Michael Wise, The Damascus Document, pg56)
II Timothy 3:9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.
The Man of God and the Word of God
II Timothy 3:10 But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance,
II Timothy 3:11 persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.
- How was Timothy persecuted in the Bible?
- The apocryphal Acts of Timothy states that in the year 97 AD, the 80-year-old bishop tried to halt a procession in honor of the goddess Diana by preaching the Gospel. The angry pagans beat him, dragged him through the streets, and stoned him to death.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Timothy#cite_note-oca-18
II Timothy 3:12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
II Timothy 3:13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
II Timothy 3:14 But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,
II Timothy 3:15 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
II Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction (training, discipline) in righteousness,
Learning scripture is not for filling a bucket
but for setting a fire.
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