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II Timothy 3: 10 - 4: 8.
Suffering and Reigning.
A | 3: 10-12. Paul's doctrine and ministry.--The BEGINNING (Acts 13: and 14:).
a | 10. My doctrine, etc.
b | 11, 12. Paul's first ministry and suffering.
B | 3: 13-17. Scripture for doctrine. For child and Man of God.
For Salvation and Service.
c | 13. Deceiving and being deceived.
d | 14, 15-. The CHILD.
e | -15-. Holy Scriptures.
f | -15. Wise unto salvation.
e | 16. Inspired Scriptures.
f | 16. Profitable for doctrine.
d | 17-. The MAN.
c | -17. Furnished to all good works.
C | 4: 1. The Judgment of Quick and Dead at Appearing.
g | 1. The Judge.
h | 1. His Appearing.
B | 4: 2, 3-. Preach the Word . . . . . with doctrine. In view of apostasy.
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2. In and out of season (enkairos, akairos).
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| 2. Preach the Word.
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| 2. Longsuffering and doctrine..
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3-. The coming season (kairos).
A | 4: -3-7. Paul's doctrine and ministry. The END. "I have finished."
a | 3-5. Sound doctrine not endured.
b | 6, 7. Paul's last ministry and suffering.
C | 4: 8. The Judge of Paul and others at Appearing.
g | 8. The righteous Judge.
h | 8. His appearing.
"But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith,
longsuffering, charity, patience, persecutions, afflictions, which came unto
me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured; but out
of them all the Lord delivered me" (II Tim. 3: 10, 11).
Let us not forget, that intense as our own personal interest must be in this epistle, that
the apostle primarily penned it to encourage his young son in the faith, Timothy, who was
about to step into the breach made by the apostle's death. Every exhortation, every
warning, every encouragement, every personal appeal, was first of all addressed to one
man, and the more we keep this great fact in mind, the better shall we appreciate the
epistle as a whole. "But thou", three times in this section does the apostle use this phrase,
Su de, "Thou" Su with the adversative* "but" de.
[* - For the sake of clearness, and for any whose grammar has become a little "rusty", an
adversative, like the word "adverse" or "adversary" indicates opposition or contrast.]
"In contrast with the apostasy of the last days, thou, Timothy, hast fully
known my doctrine" (3: 10).