Timothy
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding
profane [and] vain babblings, and oppositions of science
falsely so called:...
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Timothy (Greek: Τιμόθεος; Timótheos, meaning "honouring
God"[1]) was a first-century Christian bishop who died about
AD 80. The New Testament indicates that Timothy traveled with
Saint Paul, who was also his mentor. He is addressed as the
recipient of two Pauline epistles......
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This 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;...
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Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace
[be] with thee. Amen. <[The first to Timothy was written from
Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana.]>...
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tim'-o-thi (Timotheos (Acts 17:14; 18:5; 19:22; 20:4; Rom
16:21; 1 Cor 4:17; 16:10; 2 Cor 1:1,19; Phil 1:1; 2:19; Col
1:1; 1 Thess 1:1; 3:2,6; 2 Thess 1:1; 1 Tim 1:2,18; 6:20; 2
Tim 1:2; Philem 1:1; Heb 13:23; the King James Version,
Timotheus):
1. One of Paul's Converts:
Timothy was one of the best known of Paul's companions and
fellow-labore...
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-(also Called TIMOTHEUS, the companion of Paul)
-Parentage of
Ac 16:1
-Reputation and Christian faith of
Ac 16:2; 1Co 4:17; 16:10; 2Ti 1:5; 3:15
-Circumcised; becomes Paul's companion
Ac 16:3; 1Th 3:2
-Left by Paul at Berea
Ac 17:14
-Rejoined Paul at Corinth
Ac 17:15; 18:5
-Sent into Macedonia
Ac 19:22
-Rejoined by Paul; accompanies Pa...
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The disciple thus named was the son of one of those mixed
marriages which, though condemned by stricter Jewish opinion
were yet not uncommon in the later periods of Jewish
history. The father's name is unknown; he was a Greek, i.e.
a Gentile, by descent. Ac 16:1,3 The absence of any personal
allusion to the father in the Acts or Epistles sugge...
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honouring God, a young disciple who was Paul's companion in
many
of his journeyings. His mother, Eunice, and his
grandmother,
Lois, are mentioned as eminent for their piety (2
Tim. 1:5). We
know nothing of his father but that he was a Greek
(Acts 16:1).
He is first brought into notice at the time of
Paul's second
visit to Lystra (16:2), w...
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First mentioned (Acts 16:1) as dwelling in Lystra (not
Derbe, Acts 20:4; compare 2 Timothy 3:11). His mother was
Eunice, a Jewess (2 Timothy 1:5); his father a Greek, i.e. a
Gentile; he died probably in Timothy's early years, as he is
not mentioned later. Timothy is called "a disciple," so that
his conversion must have been before the time of ...
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