Chapter three begins with a sad look at the state of the Church falling further and further from Christ (2 Timothy 3:1-9). This passage is often used to describe the modern world in which we live, but it is actually a description of the Church. Most people of the world have no interest in maintaining […]
Chapter two continues with a few analogies, a few commands, and a few reminders. First, Paul used the analogies of a soldier and a farmer to illustrate the focus required to serve God well (2 Timothy 2:1-7). Just like a soldier cannot be concerned with things around him when he is in training and in
Probably within about two years after writing 1 Timothy, Paul was once again arrested and taken to Rome. This would be his final journey, because he was beheaded there under the growing persecution of Nero against Christians and Christianity. Paul wrote 2 Timothy from prison in Rome around A.D. 66, the last preserved writing we
