22Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-26)I. Paul here exhorts Timothy to beware of youthful lusts , 2 Tim. 2:22. Though he was a holy good man, very much mortified to the world, yet Paul thought it necessary to caution him against youthful lusts: “ Flee them, take all possible care and pains to keep thyself pure from them.” The lusts of the flesh are youthful lusts, which young people must carefully watch against, and the best must not b…
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