17That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
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If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-17)Here the apostle, to confirm Timothy in that way wherein he walked, I. Sets before him his own example, which Timothy had been an eye-witness of, having long attended Paul (2 Tim. 3:10): Thou hast fully known my doctrine . The more fully we know the doctrine of Christ and the apostles, the more closely we shall cleave to it; the reason why many sit loose to it is because they do not fully know it.…
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