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1, 2 Timothy and Titus: Crossway Classic Commentaries is unavailable, but you can change that!

Timothy and Titus were two of Paul’s faithful associates. When problems arose in a church, Paul knew he could depend on either one of them to handle the situation. In these three epistles, Paul encourages his younger colleagues in their roles as pastors. He advises them on worship, leadership, integrity issues, and generation gaps. With confidence, the aging apostle passes the torch of faith and...

perverts the natural meaning with false interpretations? Paul has good reason to recall us to faith in Christ, which is the center and sum of Scripture. What now follows also depends on faith. 16. All Scripture—or “the whole of Scripture,” although it makes no difference to the meaning. Paul now explains more fully his brief commendation. First, he commends the Scripture because of its authority and then because of the benefit it brings. In order to assert its authority, Paul teaches that it is God-breathed,
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