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Prize (3 -14).
Depart (1:23).
Offered (2:17).
2 Timothy
Rightly divide the Word (2:15).
Strive (2:5).
Course finished (4:7).
The Crown
Finished (teleo) (4:7).
Crown (4:8).
Depart (4:6).
Offered (4:6).
There can be no reasonable doubt but that these epistles form a pair,
just as surely as do Ephesians and Colossians. Apart from other
distinguishing features, the words `depart' and `offered' are enough evidence
of the fact, for these words do not occur in any other of Paul's epistles.
The structure of 2 Timothy 2:1 -13, shorn of all detail is as follows:
2 Timothy 2:1 13
A
2:1 -7.
The Crown.
B
2:8 -10.
I suffer, I endure.
A
2:11 -13.
The Reign,
the keynotes being suffering and reigning. But the following fuller analysis
is necessary to our understanding of the epistle, before we can effectively
proceed to its exposition.
2 Timothy 2:1 13
Suffering and Reigning
C1
Suffer evil
i1
1,2.
Things heard of me.
2:1 -7.
(kakopatheo)
j1
k1
3.
The Soldier.
l1
4.
No entanglement.
Crown
k2
5.
The Athlete.
l2
5.
Contend lawfully.
k3
6.
The Husbandman.
l3
6.
Labour; before fruit.
C2
I suffer evil
i2
8.
My gospel.
2:8,9.
(kakopatheo)
j2
9.
Suffering unto bonds.
C3
I endure
i3
9.
The Word of God.
2:9,10.
(hupomeno)
j3
10.
Endurance for the elect.
C4
If we endure
i4
11.
The faithful Word.
2:11 -13.
(hupomeno)
j4
13.
The faithful Lord.
k4
11.
If we died ... live.
Reign
l4
12.
If we endure ... reign.
l4
12.
If we deny ... deny us.
k4
13.
If we faithless ... He
faithful.
It will be observed that the fourfold reference to suffering or
enduring is related to a fourfold reference to the ministry of the apostle:
`Things heard of me' (2:2).
`My gospel' (2:8).