Episode 292: Silly women laden with sins

2 Timothy 1-4

Saved (or damned) before the world began

1 ¹ From Paul to Timothy.

^3-4 I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, and I constantly pray for you, night and day.

⁹ We are saved by grace, not by works.

Salvation was given to us, according to God's purpose, before the world began.

¹⁰ Christ has abolished death and brought life and immortality through the gospel.

¹¹ I am appointed an apostle and teacher of the Gentiles.

¹³ Listen to my words and obey them.

¹⁵ Everyone in Asia has deserted me, including Phygellus and Hermogenes.

Jesus is the seed of David (if we deny him, he'll deny us)

2 ⁸ Remember that Jesus is the seed of David, who was raised from the dead according to my gospel.

¹¹ If we are dead with him, we will also live with him.

¹² If we deny him, he'll deny us.

Shun Hymeneus and Philetus

¹⁶ Shun profane and vain babblings.

^17-18 Hymeneus and Philetus, for example, say that the resurrection of the dead has already happened, and some have lost faith because of them.

¹⁹ The Lord knows those that are his.

²³ Avoid foolish questions, since these cause quarrels.

Be gentle and patient with everyone (but the devil can take you whenever he wants)

²⁴ Be gentle and patient with everyone.

²⁶ But watch out for the devil. He can capture you whenever he wants.

In the last days, men will lose natural affection (and silly, lustful women will be always learning)

3 ^1-2 In the last days, people will love themselves, covet, boast, blaspheme, disobey their parents, be ungrateful, and unholy.

³ They will lack natural affection, accuse people falsely, be incontinent, fierce, and hate everything that is good.

⁴ They'll be traitors, heady, and high-minded, and will love pleasure more than God.

⁵ They'll seem holy but will deny its power. Stay away from them.

⁶ They'll cause silly women, filled with sin, to be carried away with lust.

⁷ Such women are always learning, but never know the truth.

⁸ As Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, they resist the truth. They are reprobates, with corrupt minds.

¹³ Evil people and seducers will get worse and worse, always deceiving and being deceived.

All scripture is inspired by God (and is useful for teaching doctrine and morals)

¹⁶ All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching doctrine and morals.

I have fought the good fight (so I deserve a crown of righteousness)

4 ^2-4 Keep preaching, because the time will come when people won't believe sound doctrine. They'll have itching ears, listening to those who encourage them to follow after their own lusts, believing in fables rather than the truth.

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

⁸ So the Lord will give me a crown of righteousness when he appears on that day.

Demas has forsaken me

¹⁰ Demas has forsaken me.

Alexander did me much evil (God will reward according to his works)

¹⁴ Alexander did me much evil. The Lord will reward him according to his works.

¹⁵ You should watch out for him too. Because he disagreed with us.

Everyone deserted me (but God saved me from the lion's mouth)

¹⁶ When I was put on trial, everyone deserted me

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me, and I was delivered from the lion's mouth.

⁸ As he will deliver me from every evil work, so I can enter his heavenly kingdom.

²² Amen.