2 Timotius 1:5

1:5 I recall ¹  your sincere faith ²  that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure ³  is in you.

2 Timotius 2:4

2:4 No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please ⁴  the one who recruited him.

2 Timotius 2:25

2:25 correcting ⁵  opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth ⁶ 

2 Timotius 3:2

3:2 For people ⁷  will be lovers of themselves, ⁸  lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

2 Timotius 3:6

3:6 For some of these insinuate themselves ⁹  into households and captivate weak women ¹⁰  who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

2 Timotius 3:8

3:8 And just as Jannes and Jambres ¹¹  opposed Moses, so these people – who have warped minds and are disqualified in the faith ¹²  – also oppose the truth.

2 Timotius 4:17

4:17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message ¹³  would be fully proclaimed ¹⁴  for all the Gentiles to hear. And so I was delivered from the lion’s mouth!

[1:5]  ¹ tn Grk “recalling” (as a continuation of the preceding clause). Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:5]  ² tn Grk “the sincere faith in you.”

[1:5]  ³ tn Or “convinced.”

[2:4]  ⁴ tn Grk “that he may please.”

[2:25]  ⁵ sn Correcting is the word for “child-training” or “discipline.” It is often positive (training, educating) but here denotes the negative side (correcting, disciplining).

[2:25]  ⁶ tn Grk “repentance unto knowledge of the truth.”

[3:2]  ⁷ tn Grk “men”; but here ἄνθρωποι (anqrwpoi) is generic, referring to both men and women.

[3:2]  ⁸ tn Or “self-centered.” The first two traits in 2 Tim 3:2 and the last two in 3:4 are Greek words beginning with the root “lovers of,” and so bracket the list at beginning and end.

[3:6]  ⁹ tn Grk “For from these are those who sneak.”

[3:6]  ¹⁰ tn Or “silly women.”

[3:8]  ¹¹ sn Jannes and Jambres were the traditional names of two of Pharaoh’s magicians who opposed Moses at the time of the Exodus.

[3:8]  ¹² tn Grk “disapproved concerning the faith.”

[4:17]  ¹³ tn Or “the preaching.”

[4:17]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “might be completely fulfilled.”