2 Timothy 2:3
As a good soldier of Christ Jesus accept your share of suffering.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
In Context
Cross References
1 Corinthians 13:7She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance.
2 Corinthians 10:3For, though we are still living in the world, it is no worldly warfare that we are waging.
1 Timothy 1:18This is the charge which I entrust to you, my son Timothy, in accordance with the inspired instructions concerning you which were given me long ago, that being equipped with them as your armour you may be continually fighting the good fight,
2 Timothy 2:10For this reason I endure all things for the sake of God's own people; so that they also may obtain salvation--even the salvation which is in Christ Jesus--and with it eternal glory.
2 Timothy 4:5But as for you, you must exercise habitual self-control, and not live a self-indulgent life, but do the duty of an evangelist and fully discharge the obligations of your office.
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 →