2 Timothy 3:15 BSB — MannaFest

2 Timothy 3:15

From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

and that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

KJV

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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Commentary

5 voices

Theodore of Mopsuestia

COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY (428)

Paul here lays out four reasons why Timothy ought to be steadfast, if he will recall them: first, because of the teacher from whom he learned; second, the time when he learned it; third, the source from which the teaching came; and finally, the sublime …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures,.... And therefore must know that the doctrines he had learned were agreeable to them; and so is another reason why he should continue in them. The Jews very early learned their children the holy Scripture. Philo the Jew says (w), εκ πρωτης ηλικιας "from their very infancy"; a phrase pretty much the same with this here used. It is a maxim with the Jews (x), that when a child was five years of age, it was proper to teach him the Scriptures.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

These only were extant when Timothy was an infant. Which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith in the Messiah that was to come. How much more are the Old and New Testament together able, in God's hand, to make us more abundantly wise unto salvation!

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Then are we Christ's disciples indeed, John viii. We should not be any more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, Eph. iv. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines; for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, Heb. xiii.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

And that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures - That is, the Old Testament; for the New Testament was not then written; see the notes at Joh 5:39. The mother of Timothy was a pious Hebrewess, and regarded it as one of the duties of her religion to train her son in the careful knowledge of the word of God. This was regarded by the Hebrews as an important duty of religion, and there is reason to believe that it was commonly faithfully performed. The Jewish writings abound with lessons on this subject.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὅτι	hoti	for	G3754 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
βρέφους	brephous	childhood	G1025 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
ἱερὰ	hi'era	sacred	G2413 →
γράμματα	grammata	writings	G1121 →
οἶδας,	oidas	you know,
τὰ	ta	which	G3588 →
δυνάμενά	dunamena	are being able	G1410 →
σε	se	you	G4771 →
σοφίσαι	sophisai	to make wise	G4679 →
εἰς	eis	unto	G1519 →
σωτηρίαν	sōtērian	salvation	G4991 →
διὰ	dia	through	G1223 →
πίστεως	pisteōs	faith	G4102 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
Χριστῷ	Christō	Christ	G5547 →
Ἰησοῦ.¶	Iēsou	Jesus.	G2424 →

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

The walk

The walk8

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
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 6:7
  And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Ephesians 6:4
  Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- Genesis 18:19
  For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that…
- Deuteronomy 4:9
  Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as…
- Psalms 78:3–6
  that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
Through
Luke 24:45
Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
leads to
- Acts 16:14
  Among those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.
- 1 John 5:20
  And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son…
- Psalms 119:18
  Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.