2 Timothy 2:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

2 Timothy 2:13 —

Old words in this verse

abide: — stay, remain, live.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Romans 3:3
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
Titus 1:2
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
1 Thessalonians 5:24
Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-13)

I. To encourage Timothy in suffering, the apostle puts him in mind of the resurrection of Christ (2 Tim. 2:8): Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead, according to my gospel. This is the great proof of his divine mission, and therefore a great confirmation of the truth of the Christian religion; and the consideration of it should make us faithful to our Christia…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. believe not--“If we are unbelievers (literally, ‘unfaithful’), He remains faithful” (De 7:9, 10). The oldest manuscripts read, “For He cannot (it is an impossibility that He should) deny Himself.” He cannot be unfaithful to His word that He will deny those who deny Him, though we be not faithful to our profession of faith in Him (Ro 3:3). Three things are impossible to God, to die, to lie, and…