Timothy
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Named at Acts 16:1: when Paul came to Derbe and Lystra, “a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed, but his father was a Greek”; at 16:2–3 the brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium give a good testimony about him, and Paul, wanting to have him go out with him, circumcises him because of the Jews who were in those parts; at 17:14–15, when the brothers send Paul out to go as far as to the sea, Silas and Timothy still stay at Beroea, and those who escorted Paul receive a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly; and at 18:5 Silas and Timothy come down from Macedonia. Acts 19:22 says that Paul sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, and 20:4 names Timothy among those who accompanied Paul as far as Asia. Timothy is named with Paul as a brother at the opening of Philemon 1:1. Philippians 2:19–23 gives the words of the writer (“I”): “But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing. For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you. For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. But you know that he has proved himself. As a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News. Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.” 1 Thessalonians 3:1–2 says, “we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone, and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,” and 3:6, “But Timothy has just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love”. 1 Timothy 1:2 calls him “Timothy, my true child in faith”; 1:3–4 says, “As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine, and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies”; and 1:18–19 says, “I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience”. 2 Timothy 1:2 is written “to Timothy, my beloved child”; 1:5 speaks of the sincere faith “which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also”; and 3:14–15 say, “But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures”. Hebrews 13:23 says, “Know that our brother Timothy has been freed,” and adds, “with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.”
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- 1CO 4:14–21, engwebp
14I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
15For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
16I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
17Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
18Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
20For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.
21What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
- 1CO 16:5–12, engwebp
5I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.
6But with you it may be that I will stay with you, or even winter with you, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go.
7For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.
8But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,
9for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
10Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.
11Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.
12Now concerning Apollos the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers, but it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.
- 1TH 1:1, engwebp
1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1TH 3:1–5, engwebp
1Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,
2and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,
3that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
4For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
5For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
- 1TH 3:6–10, engwebp
6But Timothy has just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you.
7For this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
8For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
9For what thanksgiving can we give again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,
10night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
- 1TI 1:1–2, engwebp
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,
2to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 1TI 1:3–11, engwebp
3As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
4and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith.
5But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,
6from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,
7desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say nor about what they strongly affirm.
8But we know that the law is good if a person uses it lawfully,
9as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,
11according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
- 1TI 1:18–20, engwebp
18I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,
19holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,
20of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
- 1TI 6:20–21, engwebp
20Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
21which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.
- 2CO 1:1–2, engwebp
1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2CO 1:15–22, engwebp
15In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,
16and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
17When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”
18But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”
19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”
20For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.
21Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,
22who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
- 2TH 1:1–2, engwebp
1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2TI 1:1–2, engwebp
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
2to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 2TI 1:3–7, engwebp
3I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
4longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
5having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also.
6For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
7For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
- 2TI 3:10–17, engwebp
10But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
11persecutions, and sufferings—those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
12Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
15From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
17that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
- ACT 16:1–5, engwebp
1He came to Derbe and Lystra; and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed, but his father was a Greek.
2The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.
3Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
4As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.
5So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.
- ACT 17:10–15, engwebp
10The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
12Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
13But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
14Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
15But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
- ACT 18:5–11, engwebp
5When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
6When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
7He departed there and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
8Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
9The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;
10for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
11He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
- ACT 19:21–22, engwebp
21Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
22Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
- ACT 20:1–5, engwebp
1After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
2When he had gone through those parts and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.
3When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.
4These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea, Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, Gaius of Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.
5But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas.
- COL 1:1–2, engwebp
1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
2to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- HEB 13:22–25, engwebp
22But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.
23Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.
24Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.
25Grace be with you all. Amen.
- PHM 1:1, engwebp
1Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,
- PHM 1:1–2, engwebp
1Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,
2to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:
- PHP 1:1–2, engwebp
1Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:
2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- PHP 2:19–24, engwebp
19But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.
20For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.
21For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
22But you know that he has proved himself. As a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.
23Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.
24But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.
- ROM 16:21–24, engwebp
21Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.
22I, Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in the Lord.
23Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.
24The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all! Amen.
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Timothy — Addressed the letter to — Philemon
Evidence: Philemon 1:1–2
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Timothy — Addressed the letter to — Apphia
Evidence: Philemon 1:1–2
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Timothy — Addressed the letter to — Archippus
Evidence: Philemon 1:1–2
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Philemon — Fellow worker of — Timothy
Evidence: Philemon 1:1
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Archippus — Fellow soldier of — Timothy
Evidence: Philemon 1:1–2
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Timothy — Fellow worker of — Paul
Evidence: Romans 16:21–24
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Paul — Addressed the letter to — Timothy
Evidence: 1 Timothy 1:1–2, 2 Timothy 1:1–2
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Eunice — Mother of — Timothy
Evidence: 2 Timothy 1:3–7
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Took part in (18) — Paul takes Timothy with him and circumcises him, At Beroea the Scriptures are examined daily; Paul is brought as far as Athens, Paul says he will go to the Gentiles; the Lord speaks to him in a vision by night, Paul determines to go to Jerusalem and sends Timothy and Erastus into Macedonia, Paul goes through Macedonia into Greece; those who accompany him wait at Troas, Greetings from Timothy, Tertius, Gaius, Erastus and others, The appeal to imitate the writer, Timothy sent, and the plan to come, Paul and Timothy’s greeting to the assembly of God at Corinth, The writer on the plan to pass into Macedonia and on to Judea, Paul and Timothy’s greeting to the saints at Philippi, Paul and Timothy’s greeting to the saints at Colossae, Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy’s greeting to the assembly of the Thessalonians, Timothy sent by the writers left behind at Athens, Timothy’s coming with glad news of faith and love, Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy’s greeting of grace and peace to the assembly of the Thessalonians, Paul’s greeting to Timothy, Paul’s greeting to Timothy, his beloved child, The news of Timothy’s release, and greetings
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He came to Derbe and Lystra; and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed, but his father was a Greek.
Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea, Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, Gaius of Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.
Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.
Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”
Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:
But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,
But Timothy has just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you.
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,
Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,
Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Timothy (person-timothy) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/person/timothy Current wording: Named at Acts 16:1: when Paul came to Derbe and Lystra, “a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed, but his father was a Greek”; at 16:2–3 the brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium give a good testimony about him, and Paul, wanting to have him go out with him, circumcises him because of the Jews who were in those parts; at 17:14–15, when the brothers send Paul out to go as far as to the sea, Silas and Timothy still stay at Beroea, and those who escorted Paul receive a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly; and at 18:5 Silas and Timothy come down from Macedonia. Acts 19:22 says that Paul sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, and 20:4 names Timothy among those who accompanied Paul as far as Asia. Timothy is named with Paul as a brother at the opening of Philemon 1:1. Philippians 2:19–23 gives the words of the writer (“I”): “But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing. For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you. For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. But you know that he has proved himself. As a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News. Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.” 1 Thessalonians 3:1–2 says, “we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone, and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,” and 3:6, “But Timothy has just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love”. 1 Timothy 1:2 calls him “Timothy, my true child in faith”; 1:3–4 says, “As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine, and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies”; and 1:18–19 says, “I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience”. 2 Timothy 1:2 is written “to Timothy, my beloved child”; 1:5 speaks of the sincere faith “which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also”; and 3:14–15 say, “But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures”. Hebrews 13:23 says, “Know that our brother Timothy has been freed,” and adds, “with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.” Cited evidence: 1CO 4:14–21, engwebp / 1CO 16:5–12, engwebp / 1TH 1:1, engwebp / 1TH 3:1–5, engwebp / 1TH 3:6–10, engwebp / 1TI 1:1–2, engwebp / 1TI 1:3–11, engwebp / 1TI 1:18–20, engwebp (and 19 more of 27) Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.