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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...

Paul includes the word Spirit here to emphasize that everything in Christ was superior to man. Paul did this for two reasons. First, since Christ had been humbled in the flesh, Paul contrasts the Spirit with the flesh through which his glory was clearly seen. Second, the glory of God’s one and only Son, which John states was seen in Christ, John 1:14, was not made up of outward show or worldly grandeur but was nearly all spiritual. Paul declares the same thing in Romans, “regarding his Son, who as
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