2 TIMOTHY 2:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart. — The dual command: pheugo (flee) youthful epithymiai (desires) while actively pursuing (diōkō) four virtues (dikaiosynē, pistis, agapē, eirēnē) in communion with those summoning (epikaleō) the Lord with pure hearts. Community and virtue practice intertwine.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 2:22
Not only the lust of fornication, but every inordinate desire is a youthful lust. Let the aged learn that they ought not to do the deeds of the youthful. If one be given to insolence, or a lover of power, of riches, of bodily pleasures, it is a youthful lust, and foolish. These things must proceed from a heart not yet established, from a mind not deeply grounded, but in a wavering state. What then does he advise in order that none may be captivated by these things? “Flee…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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