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Questions about the nature of Christian leadership and authority, attitudes toward wealth and materialism, proper responses to cults, the role of women in the church, and even the validity of the institution of marriage are not new. Paul addressed these issues in personal letters to Timothy and Titus as leaders of first-century congregations in Ephesus and Crete. What he had to say to them is as...

Relying on the Holy Spirit (1:6–7) To have a gift and to put it to use are two different things. In verses 6 and 7 Paul continues (for this reason, v. 6) his encouragement of Timothy now in relation to the gift of God. This description of the gift and the means by which it came to Timothy (through the laying on of my hands) have led to different interpretations. A first view takes this passage in close connection with 1 Timothy 4:14, which also mentions a gift related to the laying on of hands—in
2 Timothy 1:6–7
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