2 TIMOTHY 3:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.”
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted — Paul universalizes: diōgmos (persecution) attends those choosing eusebia (godliness) en Christō Iēsou (in Christ Jesus). Fidelity generates opposition; discipleship involves suffering.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 3:12
But why, he says, should I speak only of myself? Each one that will live godly will be persecuted. Here he calls afflictions and sorrows, “persecutions,” for it is not possible that a man pursuing the course of virtue should not be exposed to grief, tribulation, and temptations. For how can he escape it who is treading in the strait and narrow way, and who has heard, that “in the world you shall have tribulation”? John 16:33 If Job in his time said, “The life of man upon…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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