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2 Timothy 3:10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, 11 persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
a.2 Timothy 3:17 Or that you, a man of God,
The easy English commentary says:
Timothy must continue in what he had learned. He must not accept the new ideas of the false teachers. He must remain loyal to the truth that he had believed.
He should continue in what he had learned. This is because he knew who taught him. He knows what they believed. And he knows how they lived. He can trust them because he knows them.
Among those who taught him were his mother Eunice, his grandmother Lois and Paul.
He should continue in what he had learned. This is because he knew who taught him. He knows what they believed. And he knows how they lived. He can trust them because he knows them.
Among those who taught him were his mother Eunice, his grandmother Lois and Paul.
These are the verses the preacher who burned my copy of the Bible because it wasn't a King James Bible. How many of you have been in a Bible Study, Sunday School for example, when someone was reading a verse in a translation different than yours? Since the King James Version made absolutely no sense to me, I used the American Standard or the NIV translations. Whenever the teacher was translating or interpreting the verses for the day, and it was contradictory to what my Bible was telling me, I would question it.
If in the rest of the Bible the sky was blue, for example, and in the interpretation of the teacher, the sky was yellow.... flags go up. It's possible the sky was yellow. God is capable of all kinds of colors.... anything like that is worthy of a lot of research. Either the sky was yellow because God caused it for a reason [a lesson to be learned] or the teacher was spouting false doctrine [need for correction].
Sometimes.... when I brought these questions up.... I would get one of those nasty "how dare you" stares from the teacher. That is the beginning of persecution and I've seen it get so bad that a friend of mine was run out of a church because she questioned the teacher.
Think back to Matthew 12. Jesus was walking with His disciples through a field of grain on the Sabbath. The leaders of the Temple used the only interpretation they knew [the Law of Moses] to say the disciples were committing a crime. Jesus had something else in mind when he allowed the disciples to gather a little grain on the Sabbath. Here Jesus was teaching us that Jesus is the Lord of Sabbath.
It's hard to explain, but when something there is something contradictory comes up in Bible Study... make sure you ask questions.... get down to the nitty gritty.... because it is either a life lesson or false teaching.
