2 Timothy 2:3
Suffer affliction, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
In Context
Cross References
1 Corinthians 13:7it bears all things, it believes all things, it hopes all things, it endures all things.
2 Corinthians 10:3For walking in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh;
1 Timothy 1:18This charge I commit unto you, O child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before on you, that you may war a beautiful warfare in the same;
2 Timothy 2:10On account of this I endure all things for the sake of the elect, in order that they may also have the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
2 Timothy 4:5But be thou sober in all things, suffer affliction, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 2:2-8
Ministerial Fortitude. ( a. d. 66.) 1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. 3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned,… Read the whole commentary →