Berean BlueOpen the app

Scripture · New Testament

2 Timothy 1:1

2 Timothy 1:1 is verse 1 of 2 Timothy chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

BSB source and public domain terms

King James Version

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

World English Bible

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

“Christ” means “Anointed One”.

Read in context

2 Timothy 1:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

2 To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

3 I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as did my forefathers, as I constantly remember you night and day in my prayers.

Read all of 2 Timothy 1

Greek words

Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Study 2 Timothy 1:1

Read the commentary on 2 Timothy 1

Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Romans 1:1

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—

2 Corinthians 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:

John 5:24

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.

John 5:39

You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,

John 5:40

yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.

John 6:40

For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

John 6:54

Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 10:28

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

Romans 5:21

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:20

For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.

Ephesians 3:6

This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.

Titus 1:2

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

Hebrews 9:15

Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

2 Peter 1:3

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

2 Peter 1:4

Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

1 John 2:25

And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

1 John 5:11

And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

1 John 5:12

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

1 John 5:13

I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Open in Berean Blue