ris3n's Apologetics Codex

Passage

2 Timothy 1.1

Book: 2 Timothy · ASV / WEB / KJV / YLT

Immediate context (±2 verses)

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ASV

1. Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

  1. to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 3. I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers in a pure conscience, how unceasing is my remembrance of thee in my supplications, night and day (2 Timothy 1:1-3, ASV)
WEB

1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

  1. to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 3. I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day (2 Timothy 1:1-3, WEB)
KJV

1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

  1. To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 3. I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; (2 Timothy 1:1-3, KJV)
YLT

1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according to a promise of life that [is] in Christ Jesus,

  1. to Timotheus, beloved child: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord! 3. I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day, (2 Timothy 1:1-3, YLT)

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Setting

  • Speaker: Paul, writing under his own name
  • Audience: Timothy, Paul's delegate at Ephesus
  • Location: written from imprisonment at Rome to Timothy at Ephesus
  • Time period: c. AD 64-67, traditionally Paul's last letter, written from a second Roman imprisonment shortly before his execution

Theological reading

The opening formula is standard for Paul and is worth reading closely because of where the letter goes. He calls himself an apostle "through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus." A man writing in chains and expecting execution (4:6) opens by naming his commission as God's will and his subject as life.

On authorship: the Pastoral Epistles are the most disputed letters in the Pauline corpus, with critical scholarship frequently assigning them to a later follower on grounds of vocabulary, church structure, and the difficulty of fitting them into the itinerary of Acts. The traditional position holds that Acts ends before Paul's death, leaving room for a release and a further period of travel, and that a letter written years later to a longtime associate in changed circumstances is expected to read differently. The letter presents itself as Paul's and is treated as such here._

Key words

Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word; see Lexicon Roadmap.

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Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the most literal English translations available (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the public domain in the United States, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

  • ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
  • WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
  • KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
  • YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See Bibles for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.