Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
If a man purge himself (ean tiv ekkaqarh). Paul drops the metaphor of the house and takes up the individual as one of the "vessels." Condition of third class with first aorist active subjunctive of ekkaqairw, old verb, to cleanse out, in LXX, in N.T. only here and I Corinthians 5:7.
From these (apo toutwn). From the vessels for dishonour of verse II Timothy 2:20.
Sanctified (hgiasmenon). Perfect passive participle of agiazw, for which verb see I Corinthians 6:11.
Meet for the master's use (euxrhston tw despotw). Dative case despoth (for which word see I Timothy 6:1) with euxrhston, neuter singular like hgiasmenon agreeing with skeuov. Old verbal adjective (eu and xraomai, to use well), useful or usable for the master. In N.T. only here and II Timothy 4:11. See axrhston in Philemon 1:11.
Prepared (htoimasmenon). Perfect passive participle of etoimazw, in a state of readiness, old and common word, elsewhere by Paul only I Corinthians 2:9 (LXX).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 Timothy 2:21:
Acts 4:24
1 Timothy 6:1
2 Timothy 4:11
Titus 3:1
Revelation 9:15
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