2 Timothy 2:25

2 Timothy 2:25

23 But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife.

24 And ^aa servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, ^bable to teach, ^cpatient,

25 ^ain humility correcting those who are in opposition, ^bif God perhaps will grant them repentance, ^cso that they may know the truth,

26 and that they may come to their senses and ^aescape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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instructing—Greek, "disciplining," instructing with correction, which those who deal in "uninstructive" or "undisciplined questions" need (see on II Timothy 2:23; I Timothy 1:20).

those that oppose themselves—Greek, "oppositely affected"; those of a different opinion.

if . . . peradventure—Greek, "if at any time."

repentance—which they need as antecedent to the full knowledge (so the Greek for 'acknowledgment') of the truth" (I Timothy 2:4), their minds being corrupted (II Timothy 3:8), and their lives immoral. The cause of the spiritual ignorance which prompts such "questions" is moral, having its seat in the will, not in the intellect (John 7:17). Therefore repentance is their first need. That, not man, but God alone can "give" (Acts 5:31).

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