2 Timothy 1:1-5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Reader Related Verse
Bible Comments

Introductory Salutation (2 Timothy 1:1 f.) and Thanksgiving (2 Timothy 1:3-5). For the official form of salutation cf. 1 Timothy 1:1 f.*

Moved by affectionate remembrance, Paul, thanks God for some recent reminder of Timothy's faith, a faith witnessed earlier in his mother and grandmother.

2 Timothy 1:2. mercy: 1 Timothy 1:2 *.

2 Timothy 1:3. The ground of thanksgiving is 2 Timothy 1:5 (contrast AV and RV), and the true rendering: I thank God. since my remembrance. is unceasing. that I have been reminded.

2 Timothy 1:4. tears at their last separation. faith: not Jewish (Zahn), but as the sequence of thought demands, Christian. Eunice: Acts 16:1.

Related Commentaries of 2 Timothy 1:1

2 Timothy 1:1-5

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;

4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.