1 Timothy 1:2 — King James Version← Study notes
“Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.”
1 Timothy 1:2 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · 1 Timothy 1:217 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 1:2
Great and admirable is the dignity of an Apostle, and we find Paul constantly setting forth the causes of it, not as if he took the honor to himself, but as entrusted with it, and being under the necessity of so doing. For when he speaks of himself as “called,” and that “by the will of God,” and again elsewhere, “a necessity is laid upon me” 1 Corinthians 9:16, and when he says, “for this I was separated,” by these expressions all idea of arrogance and ambition is removed.…
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