13Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
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But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-16)The apostle would have Timothy to instil into the minds of Christians such sentiments as might prevent their being seduced by the judaizing teachers. Observe, Those are good ministers of Jesus Christ who are diligent in their work; not that study to advance new notions, but that put the brethren in remembrance of those things which they have received and heard. Wherefore I will not be negligent to…
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