Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Parallel translations
- WEB You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
- BSB Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
- NKJV You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
- NASB Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
- NLT Endure suffering along with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
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Quick answer
Timothy must share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. Endurance of hardship is part of faithful Christian service.
Overview
Paul introduces the first of three vivid images, the soldier, to describe gospel ministry. Like a soldier, Timothy must accept hardship as a normal and expected part of his calling. Suffering for Christ is not failure but evidence of genuine service under the Lord.
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- Heb 12:2–3Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Jas 1:12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
- 2 Tim 4:5But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
- Eph 6:11–18Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
- 2 Tim 1:8Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
- 2 Cor 10:3–5For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
- Heb 10:32But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
- 2 Tim 2:10Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
- 2 Cor 1:6And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
- 1 Tim 1:18This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
- 2 Tim 3:11Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
- Heb 11:27By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
- 1 Cor 13:7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
- Heb 6:15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
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