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2 Timothy 2:22 KJV
2 Timothy · chapter 2 · verse 22
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.2 Timothy 2:22 · King James Version
2 Timothy 2:22 in context
20But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
21If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
22Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
23But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
24And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
Commentary
Cross references
- 1 Peter 2:11
- 1 Peter 3:11
- 1 Corinthians 6:18
- 1 Timothy 6:11
- Psalms 119:9
- Hebrews 12:14
- 1 Timothy 4:12
- Psalms 66:18-19
Key words (Strong's)
- righteousnessdikaiosynēin a broad sense state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition…G1343 →
- charityagapēaffection, good will, love, benevolence, brotherly love, love feastsG26 →
- followdiōkōto make to run or flee, put to flight, drive away, to run swiftly in order to catch a…G1377 →
- lustsepithymiadesire, craving, longing, desire for what is forbidden, lustG1939 →
- faithpistisconviction of the truth of anything, belief in the NT of a conviction or belief…G4102 →
- peaceeirēnēa state of national tranquillity, exemption from the rage and havoc of war, peace between…G1515 →
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I. Paul here exhorts Timothy to beware of youthful lusts, Ti2 2:22. Though he was a holy good man, very much mortified to the world, yet Paul thought it necessary to caution him against youthful lusts: "Flee them, take all possible care and pains to keep thyself pure from them." The lusts of the flesh are youthful…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 22-26