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1 Timothy 1:2

I write to you, Timothy. You are my son in the Christian faith. May God the Father and Jesus Christ our Lord give you His loving-favor and loving-kindness and peace.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Benedictions;   Peace;   Timothy;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Jesus Christ;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Mercy of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mark or Marcus;   Timothy;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Father;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Friend, Friendship;   Mercy;   Timothy, First and Second, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Atonement;   Jesus Christ;   Ministry, Gospel;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Timothy;   Titus, Epistle to;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Timothy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mercy, Merciful;   Peace, Spiritual;   Timothy;   1 Timothy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Timotheus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Family;   Mercy;   Mercy ;   Parousia;   Peace;   Peace (2);   Pity Compassion;   Regeneration (2);   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Grace,;   Son;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Timotheus;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Child;   Elect Lady;   Timothy;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 19;   Every Day Light - Devotion for November 24;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
To Timothy, my true son in the faith.
King James Version (1611)
Unto Timothie my own sonne in the Faith: Grace, mercie, and peace from God our Father, and Iesus Christ our Lord.
King James Version
Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
English Standard Version
To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
New American Standard Bible
To Timothy, my true son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
New Century Version
To Timothy, a true child to me because you believe: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
To Timothy, my genuine child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Berean Standard Bible
To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Contemporary English Version
Timothy, because of our faith, you are like a son to me. I pray that God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will be kind and merciful to you. May they bless you with peace!
Complete Jewish Bible
To: Timothy, a true son because of your trust: Grace, mercy and shalom from God the Father and the Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
Darby Translation
to Timotheus, [my] true child in faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Easy-to-Read Version
To Timothy, a true son to me in the faith we share. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Vnto Timotheus my naturall sonne in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and from Christ Iesus our Lord.
George Lamsa Translation
To Ti-mo''the-us, a true son in the faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God, our Father, and Christ Jesus our LORD.
Good News Translation
To Timothy, my true son in the faith: May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord give you grace, mercy, and peace.
Lexham English Bible
to Timothy, my true child in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Literal Translation
to Timothy, a true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amplified Bible
to Timothy, my true son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace [inner calm and spiritual well-being] from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
American Standard Version
unto Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Bible in Basic English
To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Hebrew Names Version
to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and shalom, from God our Father, and Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.
International Standard Version
to Timothy, my genuine child in the faith. May grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord be yours!Acts 16:1; 1 Corinthians 4:17; Galatians 1:3; Philippians 2:19; 1 Thessalonians 3:2; 2 Timothy 1:2; Titus 1:4; 1 Peter 1:2;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
to Timotheos, my true son in the faith: grace and mercy and peace from Aloha our Father and Jeshu Meshiha our Lord.
Murdock Translation
2 to Timothy, [fn] true son in the faith: grace and mercy and peace, from God our Father, and the Messiah, Jesus our Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Unto Timothie a natural sonne in the faith: Grace, mercie [and] peace from God our father and Iesus Christe our Lorde.
English Revised Version
unto Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
World English Bible
to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope, To Timotheus my own son in the faith, grace, mercy, peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
Weymouth's New Testament
To Timothy, my own true son in the faith. May grace, mercy and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
to Tymothe, bilouyd sone in the feith, grace and merci and pees, of God the fadir, and of Jhesu Crist, oure Lord.
Update Bible Version
to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Webster's Bible Translation
To Timothy, [my] own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
New English Translation
to Timothy, my genuine child in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord!
New King James Version
To Timothy, a true son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
New Living Translation
I am writing to Timothy, my true son in the faith. May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord give you grace, mercy, and peace.
New Revised Standard
To Timothy, my loyal child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
unto Timothy, my true child in faith: favour, mercy, peace, from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Douay-Rheims Bible
To Timothy, his beloved son in faith. Grace, mercy and peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord.
Revised Standard Version
To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Vnto Timothe his naturall sonne in the fayth.Grace mercy and peace from God oure father and Lorde Iesus Christ oure Lorde.
Young's Literal Translation
to Timotheus -- genuine child in faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Vnto Timothy my naturall sonne in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God oure father, and oure LORDE Iesus Christ.
Mace New Testament (1729)
to Timothy my sincere convert, favour, mercy and peace from God our father, and Jesus Christ our Lord.
Simplified Cowboy Version
To my son in faith Timothy, may you ride in peace, mercy, and grace from God as you gather the strays and remnants.

Contextual Overview

1 This letter is from Paul, a missionary of Jesus Christ. I am sent by God, the One Who saves, and by our Lord Jesus Christ Who is our hope. 2 I write to you, Timothy. You are my son in the Christian faith. May God the Father and Jesus Christ our Lord give you His loving-favor and loving-kindness and peace. 3 When I left for the country of Macedonia, I asked you to stay in the city of Ephesus. I wanted you to stay there so you could tell those who are teaching what is not true to stop. 4 They should not listen to stories that are not true. It is foolish for them to try to learn more about their early fathers. These only bring more questions to their minds and do not make their faith in God stronger.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Timothy: Acts 16:1-3, 1 Thessalonians 3:2

my: 1 Timothy 1:18, 1 Corinthians 4:14-17, Philippians 2:19-22, 2 Timothy 1:2, 2 Timothy 2:1, Titus 1:4

Grace: Romans 1:7, Galatians 1:3, 2 Timothy 1:2, Titus 1:4, 1 Peter 1:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 43:14 - And God Genesis 43:29 - God Daniel 4:1 - Peace Romans 16:21 - Timotheus 1 Corinthians 4:17 - who is Galatians 4:19 - little Philippians 1:1 - Timotheus Philippians 2:20 - I have Philippians 2:22 - as 1 Thessalonians 1:1 - Timotheus Philemon 1:10 - my son Philemon 1:19 - how thou 2 John 1:3 - Grace

Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
Plants grew out of the earth, giving their own kind of seeds. Trees grew with their fruit, and their kind of seeds. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the open space of the heavens to divide day from night. Let them tell the days and years and times of the year.
Job 26:7
He spreads out the north over empty waste, and hangs the earth on nothing.
Job 26:14
See, these are only a few of the things He does. And how quiet are the words spoken about Him! But who can understand His powerful thunder?"
Psalms 33:6
The heavens were made by the Word of the Lord. All the stars were made by the breath of His mouth.
Isaiah 45:18
This is what the Lord Who made the heavens, the God Who planned and made the earth, and everything in it and did not make it a waste place, but made it a place for people to live in, says, "I am the Lord, and there is no other.
Nahum 2:10
Everything has been taken from her! Yes, she is an empty waste! Hearts are melting in fear and knees are knocking! All bodies suffer, and all their faces turn white!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Unto Timothy my own son in the faith,.... Not in the flesh, or by natural descent, but in a spiritual sense, in the faith of Christ; for Timothy was not related to the apostle according to the flesh, as some have thought, but the relation was spiritual; though the apostle was not properly his spiritual father, or the instrument of his conversion; for Timothy was a converted person, and a disciple of Christ, and well reported of by the brethren, when the apostle first met with him, Acts 16:1 but he calls him his son, either because of his age, being a young man; or because of his affection for him, so the Vulgate Latin version reads, "a beloved son"; or rather, because he was instructed more largely by the apostle into the doctrine of faith; and as a son, with a father, served with him in the Gospel of Christ. It may be rendered "a true or genuine son in the faith", in distinction from nominal Christians, formal professors and hypocrites. Timothy was a real Christian, a true believer, and an hearty and upright professor and preacher of the faith of Christ, as well as truly regenerated by the Spirit of God.

Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord; the Arabic version reads, "and Lord Jesus Christ our Lord". The form of salutation is the same as in all the epistles of the apostle, only that "mercy" is here inserted; and when he wishes "grace" to Timothy, he may mean a fresh discovery of the love and free favour of God unto him, and an increase of grace in him, and of the gifts of the Spirit upon him; and by "mercy" he may intend a fresh application of the pardoning mercy of God, through Christ, and all assistance, and success in his work as a minister, and all succour and support under every trial and exercise, and mercy at the last day, or the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life; and by "peace" he may design peace of conscience through the blood of Christ, and all prosperity, temporal, spiritual, and eternal. And all this being wished for equally from Christ, as from God the Father, is a proof of the proper deity of our Lord.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Unto Timothy - For an account of Timothy, see Intro. Section 1.

My own son in the faith - Converted to the Christian faith by my instrumentality, and regarded by me with the affection of a father; see notes, 1 Corinthians 4:15. Paul had no children of his own, and he adopted Timothy as a son, and uniformly regarded and treated him as such. He had the same feeling also toward Titus; Titus 1:4; compare Galatians 4:19 note; 1 Thessalonians 2:7, 1 Thessalonians 2:11 notes; and Philemon 1:10 note.

Grace, mercy, and peace, ... - See the notes, Romans 1:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Timothy 1:2. My own son in the faith — Brought to salvation through Christ by my ministry alone. Probably the apostle speaks here according to this Jewish maxim: כל המלמר בן תכירו תורה מעלה עליו הכתוב כאלו ילרו He who teaches the law to his neighbour's son is considered by the Scripture as if he had begotten him; Sanhedrin, fol. xix. 2. And they quote Numbers 3:1, as proving it: These are the generations of Aaron and Moses-and these are the names of the sons of Aaron. "Aaron," say they, "begot them, but Moses instructed them; therefore they are called by his name." See Schoettgen.

But γνησιω τεκνω may mean my beloved son; for in this sense το γνησιον is not unfrequently used.

In the faith — The word πιστις, faith, is taken here for the whole of the Christian religion, faith in Christ being its essential characteristic.

Grace, mercy, and peace] GRACE, the favour and approbation of God. MERCY, springing from that grace, pardoning, purifying, and supporting. PEACE, the consequence of this manifested mercy, peace of conscience, and peace with God; producing internal happiness, quietness, and assurance.


 
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