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2 Timothy 4:15

You be on guard against him too, because he vehemently opposed our words.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Helps-Hindrances;   Hindrances;   Opposers;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Alexander;   Timothy, the Second Epistle to;   Holman Bible Dictionary - 2 Timothy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Paul the Apostle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Alexander ;   Lion;   Paul;   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Pastoral Epistles, the;   Paul, the Apostle;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 14;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Watch out for him yourself because he strongly opposed our words.
King James Version (1611)
Of whom bee thou ware also, for he hath greatly withstood our words.
King James Version
Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.
English Standard Version
Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message.
New American Standard Bible
Be on guard against him yourself too, for he vigorously opposed our teaching.
New Century Version
You also should be careful that he does not hurt you, because he fought strongly against our teaching.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Be on guard against him yourself, for he vigorously opposed our teaching.
Legacy Standard Bible
Be on guard against him yourself, for he vigorously opposed our words.
Berean Standard Bible
You too should beware of him, for he has vigorously opposed our message.
Contemporary English Version
Alexander opposes what we preach. You had better watch out for him.
Complete Jewish Bible
and you should guard against him, because he bitterly opposed everything we said.
Darby Translation
Against whom be *thou* also on thy guard, for he has greatly withstood our words.
Easy-to-Read Version
He fought against everything we teach. You should be careful that he doesn't hurt you too.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Of whome be thou ware also: for he withstoode our preaching sore.
George Lamsa Translation
You beware of him also; for he has greatly opposed our words.
Good News Translation
Be on your guard against him yourself, because he was violently opposed to our message.
Lexham English Bible
against whom you also be on guard, because he vehemently opposed our words.
Literal Translation
You also be on guard against him , for he greatly withstood our words.
Amplified Bible
Be on guard against him yourself, because he vigorously opposed our message.
American Standard Version
of whom do thou also beware; for he greatly withstood our words.
Bible in Basic English
But be on the watch for him, for he was violent in his attacks on our teaching.
Hebrew Names Version
of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.
International Standard Version
You, too, must watch out for him, for he violently opposed our message.
Etheridge Translation
But be thou also aware of him, for he is much uplifted against our words.
Murdock Translation
And do thou also beware of him; for he is very insolent against our words.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Of whom be thou ware also: For he hath greatly withstande our preaching.
English Revised Version
of whom be thou ware also; for he greatly withstood our words.
World English Bible
of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Of whom be thou also aware; for he hath greatly withstood our words.
Weymouth's New Testament
You also should beware of him; for he has violently opposed our preaching.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whom also thou eschewe; for he ayenstood ful greetli oure wordis.
Update Bible Version
of whom you also beware; for he greatly withstood our words.
Webster's Bible Translation
Of whom be thou aware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.
New King James Version
You also must beware of him, for he has greatly resisted our words.
New Living Translation
Be careful of him, for he fought against everything we said.
New Life Bible
Watch him! He fought against every word we preached.
New Revised Standard
You also must beware of him, for he strongly opposed our message.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Of whom, be, thou also, on thy guard, for he hath greatly withstood our words.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Whom do thou also avoid: for he hath greatly withstood our words.
Revised Standard Version
Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
of whom be thou ware also. For he withstode oure preachynge sore.
Young's Literal Translation
of whom also do thou beware, for greatly hath he stood against our words;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
of whom be thou ware also. For he withstode oure wordes sore.
Mace New Testament (1729)
beware of him, for he violently opposed our doctrine.
Simplified Cowboy Version
If you run across him, be wary. He opposed our message and he is a strong adversary.

Contextual Overview

9 Make every effort to come to me soon. 10 For Demas deserted me, since he loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia. 11 Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is a great help to me in ministry. 12 Now I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus. 13 When you come, bring with you the cloak I left in Troas with Carpas and the scrolls, especially the parchments. 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him in keeping with his deeds. 15 You be on guard against him too, because he vehemently opposed our words.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

be: Matthew 10:16, Matthew 10:17, Philippians 3:2

withstood: 2 Timothy 3:8

words: or, preachings

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 6:14 - think thou Matthew 7:6 - turn Matthew 23:13 - for ye shut Luke 20:46 - Beware Acts 13:8 - withstood 1 Timothy 1:20 - Alexander 2 Peter 3:17 - beware

Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech seventy-seven times!"
Leviticus 26:18
"‘If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.
Leviticus 26:21
"‘If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.
Leviticus 26:24
I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins.
Leviticus 26:28
I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.
1 Kings 16:7
The prophet Jehu son of Hanani received from the Lord the message predicting the downfall of Baasha and his family because of all the evil Baasha had done in the sight of the Lord . His actions angered the Lord (including the way he had destroyed Jeroboam's dynasty), so that his family ended up like Jeroboam's.
Psalms 59:11
Do not strike them dead suddenly, because then my people might forget the lesson. Use your power to make them homeless vagabonds and then bring them down, O Lord who shields us!
Psalms 79:12
Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!
Proverbs 6:31
Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house.
Ezekiel 9:4
The Lord said to him, "Go through the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Of whom be thou ware also,.... For he was now at Ephesus; and since he was such a malicious, ill natured, and troublesome person, as well as a blasphemer, an heretic, and had been delivered up to Satan, it was very advisable to shun his company, and have no conversation with him, and be upon the guard against him, that he might have no opportunity of doing hurt to him, or to the church at Ephesus:

for he hath greatly withstood our words: or doctrines; the truths of the Gospel preached by Paul and Timothy, which he opposed himself to, and resisted with all his might, and endeavoured to confute and overthrow; and wherein he was deficient in argument, he made up with railing and blasphemy; and this was the true reason of the apostle's imprecations on him, and why he would have Timothy beware of him, and avoid him, and not the personal injury he had done him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Of whom be thou ware also - It would seem from this that Alexander was still a public teacher, and that his discourses were plausible and artful. The best and the wisest of men need to be on their guard against the efforts of the advocates of error.

For he hath greatly withstood our words - Margin, “preachings.” The Greek is, “words;” but the reference is doubtless to the public teachings of Paul. This verse makes it clear that it was no private wrong that Paul referred to, but the injury which he was doing to the cause of truth as a professed public teacher.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. Of whom be thou ware also — It seems that this rabbin travelled about from place to place for the purpose of opposing the Gospel, the Jews putting him forward, as it is said, Acts 19:33.

He hath greatly withstood our words. — Has been a constant opposer of the Christian doctrines.


 
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