The Everlasting Word of God

To Timothy, false prophets are coming, and they will offer you empty promises of good things. These promises will seem rewarding because the Christian life is hard, just look at my [Paul's] life, and the suffering I've endured. Nevertheless, these prophets will eventually fall, and our bodies may fade, but the truth shall endure. For Scripture is the very Word of the everlasting and almighty God. Therefore hold fast to it, just as your mother and grandmother did, and know that in it is everything you need to instruct others so that they too may know and be equipped to resist evil and do good.

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2 Timothy 3:1-17

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mine

But understand this,

Hear my words,

that y in the last days

WHEN the last days come

there will come times of difficulty.

difficult times shall arise

temporal

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For people will be z lovers of self,

BECAUSE people will fall in love with themselves

a lovers of money,

THEN to promote self, they will come to love money

b proud,

THEN as they accumulate money, they will become self-concerned/self-pitying

b arrogant,

THEN as they become more self-sustaining, they become egotistical and conceited

abusive,

THEN in their conceit, they take advantage and harm those around them

progression

b disobedient to their parents,

they EVEN harm those closest to them, like their parents

situationresponse

ungrateful,

IN OTHER WORDS, they become ungrateful

unholy,

THEN they become godless/irreverant

c heartless,

THEN unkind

unappeasable,

THEN not agreeable

slanderous,

THEN ill-speaking of others

without self-control,

WITHOUT/NOT WITH restraint

negativepositive

brutal,

RESULTING in harming others

d not loving good,

THE OPPOSITE of doing what is acceptable to God

treacherous,

AND being back-stabbers

reckless,

AND having no regard for others

e swollen with conceit,

AND being arrogant

f lovers of pleasure

AND following the lust of the flesh

rather than lovers of God,

NOT love for God

series

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having the appearance of godliness,

ALTHOUGH, these people to be holy

but g denying its power.

they are without true belief/lovers of what the world offers and not what God offers

concessive

h Avoid such people.

THEREFORE, avoid these difficult people.

For among them are i those who creep into households

BECAUSE, these difficult people will sneak into homes

and capture weak women,

FOR THE PURPOSE OF entrapping defenseless women (who don't know better)

burdened with sins

IN OTHER WORDS, women who are overcome with their own guilt and shame

and led astray by various passions,

RESULTING in being easily manipulated to accept false doctrines

always learning

RESULTING in their continued learning

and never able to j arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

YET unable to perceive what is really the truth

actionpurpose

Just as k Jannes and Jambres l opposed Moses,

FURTHERMORE, JUST LIKE the magicians who sought to contradict Moses

so these men also oppose the truth,

SO TOO are these difficult people who seek to refute what is true

m men corrupted in mind

IN OTHER WORDS, these men who are debased in their minds

and n disqualified regarding the faith.

AND disqualified in their hearts (by their disobedience showing no faith)

comparison

ground

bilateral

But they will not get very far,

NEVERTHELESS, they won't escape

for their folly will be plain to all,

BECAUSE the falsity of their teachings will be made out

o as was that of those two men.

JUST LIKE with the two false magicians

p You, however, have followed my teaching,

NEVERTHELESS, you know me, Paul, and what I teach

my conduct,

AND how I live

my aim in life,

AND my intentions

my faith,

AND my belief

my patience,

AND my forbearance

my love,

AND my heart

my steadfastness,

AND my faithfulness

my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me

ALL OF WHICH HAVE PROGRESSED TOWARDS my afflictions

q at Antioch,

IN Antioch

r at Iconium,

AND IN Iconium

and s at Lystra—

AND IN Lystra

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which persecutions I endured;

RESULTING in the fact that I had to endure them

yet t from them all u the Lord rescued me.

NEVERTHELESS, the Lord delivered me through it

Indeed, all who desire to v live a godly life in Christ Jesus w will be persecuted,

IN OTHER WORDS, those who seek to be like and live for Christ (the true good) will suffer affliction

while x evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse,

ON THE OTHER HAND, those who are ungodly and fake godliness will inevitably digress

deceiving

MEANING they start off as liars (deceiving others from the truth)

and y being deceived.

THEN eventually they are misled themselves and lost

alternative

But as for you, z continue in what you have learned

DESPITE THIS, don't lose heart and keep teaching what you've been taught

and have firmly believed,

AND in what you already hold to be true

knowing from whom 1 you learned it

BECAUSE of the testimony of those who taught it to you

and how a from childhood you have been acquainted with b the sacred writings ,

AND BECAUSE you were made familiar with the truth since childhood

c which are able to make you wise for salvation

IN OTHER WORDS, this truth that has the blueprint for one's redemption

through faith in Christ Jesus.

NAMELY, faith in Jesus Christ

Fact-Interpretation

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d All Scripture is breathed out by God

FOR Scripture is the very Word of God

and profitable for teaching,

THEREFORE, it is useful for everyting, including to instruct

for reproof,

AND edify

for correction,

AND admonish

and for training in righteousness,

AND to give practical wisdom for doing good

that e the man of God 1 may be complete,

IN ORDER THAT the godly man will be lacking in nothing

f equipped g for every good work.

IN OTHER WORDS that he will have every tool and every confidence to do what is right and godly

Two concessions: 1) False prophets are coming - they will rise for a time, and then they will fall. 2) You will be persecuted, because you desire godliness. Nevertheless, persevere and serve your people, because you have received the book of life and its inheritance from the God of life.

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Comments

PastorKarl

Interesting. I've never thought about 2a-f and 2g-3c being progressions. That's something to chew on!

Stephen.Choy

Let me know if it doesn't sit well with you! I'd love to hear your thoughts =).

joyphil

Great job Steven beloved of God. I am new to this so not sure my praise is worth much but you are inspiring an old man to keep trying.

Stephen.Choy

Thank you for your encouragement! It has blessed me, greatly. I also pray for your blessing and perseverance as you pursue your own study of God’s Word.

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