2 Timothy 2:21 BSB — MannaFest

2 Timothy 2:21

So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work.

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ASV

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master’s use, prepared unto every good work.

KJV

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

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Commentary

2 voices

Basil of Caesarea

ON THE HOLY SPIRIT 8.18 (379)

The infinite God, remaining changeless, assumed flesh and fought with death, freeing us from suffering by his own suffering!… He himself has bound the strong man and plundered his goods—that is, us, who had been abased in every manner of evil—and made us vessels fit for the Master's use, the use of our free will being made ready for any good work.

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The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour - If a man “cleanse” or “purify” himself; compare the notes on Joh 15:2. The word “these” refers, here, to the persons represented by the vessels of wood and of earth - the vessels made to dishonor, as mentioned in the previous verse 2Ti 2:

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1348: “The Great House and the Vessels In It” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1877)

ONE of the most serious calamities which can befall a Church is to have her own ministers teaching heresy. Yet this is no new thing—it has happened from the beginning. Paul and Peter and James and John, in their Epistles, had to speak of seducers in the Churches, even in those primitive days, and ever since then there have arisen in the very midst of the House of God those who have subverted the faith of many and led them away from the fundamental Truths of God into errors of their own inventing.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

If a man . . . purge himself from these--The Greek expresses "If one (for example, thou, Timothy) purify himself (so as to separate) from among these" (vessels unto dishonor). sanctified--set apart as wholly consecrated to the Lord. and meet--Some oldest manuscripts omit "and." the master's--the Lord's.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐὰν	ean	If	G1437 →
οὖν	oun	therefore	G3767 →
τις	tis	anyone	G5100 →
ἐκκαθάρῃ	ekkatharē	shall cleanse	G1571 →
ἑαυτὸν	he'auton	himself	G1438 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
τούτων,	toutōn	these,	G3778 →
ἔσται	estai	he will be	G1510 →
σκεῦος	skeuos	a vessel	G4632 →
εἰς	eis	for	G1519 →
τιμὴν	timēn	honor	G5092 →
ἡγιασμένον	hēgiasmenon	sanctified	G37 →
εὔχρηστον	euchrēston	useful	G2173 →
τῷ	tō	to the	G3588 →
δεσπότῃ,	despotē	Master,	G1203 →
εἰς	eis	for	G1519 →
πᾶν	pan	every	G3956 →
ἔργον	ergon	work	G2041 →
ἀγαθὸν	agathon	good	G18 →
ἡτοιμασμένον.¶	hētoimasmenon	prepared.	G2090 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ephesians 2:10
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
leads to
- Philippians 2:13
  For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
- 2 Corinthians 9:8
  And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Colossians 1:10
  so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
- Hebrews 13:21
  equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17
  Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
Through
Psalms 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.
leads to
- 2 Timothy 2:22
  Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
- James 1:21–25
  Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
Through
2 Corinthians 7:1
Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 4:7
  For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

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