I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
Parallel translations
- KJV I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
- BSB I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who made the good confession in His testimony before Pontius Pilate:
- NKJV I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate,
- NASB I direct you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate,
- NLT And I charge you before God, who gives life to all, and before Christ Jesus, who gave a good testimony before Pontius Pilate,
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Quick answer
Paul charges Timothy before God, the giver of life, and Christ, who made the good confession before Pilate. The example of Christ's faithful witness anchors the charge.
Overview
Paul solemnly invokes God who gives life to all and Christ Jesus, who bore faithful testimony before Pontius Pilate. Christ's good confession at his trial is the supreme model for Timothy's own confession and faithfulness. Grounding the charge in the historical witness of Jesus links Timothy's perseverance to the Lord's own steadfast obedience unto death.
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- John 18:36–37Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”
- Matt 27:11Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.”
- 1 Tim 5:21I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
- Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
- Rev 3:14“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God’s creation, says these things:
- John 5:21For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
- John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
- 1 Tim 6:12Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
- John 19:11Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”
- Rev 22:1He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
- Deut 32:39“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
- Acts 17:25neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
- John 14:25–26I have said these things to you, while still living with you.
- John 5:26For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
- 1 Tim 2:5For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
- Rev 21:6He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
- 1 Sam 2:6“Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
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