First Timothy 6:1-21

Paul continues to teach Timothy regarding the correct behavior of holy-people (sanctified people, Christians, saints, children of the only true God, all people who have received the gift of holy spirit).

I Timothy 6:1 and 2:

^6:1As-many slaves as are under a yoke they must lead (their minds to regard their) own masters worthy of all honor in order that the name of God and the teaching may not be blasphemed; ^.2and the (slaves) having believing masters must not despise (them) because they are brothers but rather they must serve-as-slaves because they are believers and loved-people¹, the (people) helping the good-work. These-things you must teach and encourage.

A “slave” is a servant who is bound to serve his master. This service as a slave (bond-servant) means that the slave's whole being is at the service-of or in service-to that one master, not serving anybody or anything else. During the time-period of the writing of the Bible, a master was obligated to take-care of his slave, and the slave was obligated to do all his master would ask of him. It was a mutually-beneficial relationship between the master and his slave. To be a "slave" was quite an honorable and responsible position to hold. However, today in the minds of some people the word "slave" has been changed from God's original design of a working relationship to what mankind twisted, corrupted and perverted it to mean as a position of demoralization or degradation, etc. But we who are students of God's Word must consider this word "slave" as God considered it at the time of Paul's writing of this letter – similar to ‘employees’ in the work situation today.

The word translated “masters” here (it is not the Greek word kurios usually translated ‘lord’) means: the sovereign lords, the absolute masters, the despots, those who have absolute dominion, ownership, supreme authority, and unlimited power within that working relationship – similar to ‘employers’ in the work situation today. This word “masters” is used to emphasize that the masters are over their own slaves whereby their slaves figuratively have their feet bound in complete subjection to them in service during everyday living.

The word translated “yoke” is not referring to a literal yoke, but figuratively describing the appropriate level of work. Those in the same yoke would work in service on the same team, as oxen being tied to the same wooden/metal bar or frame by-which they all work within its limitations plowing a field going evenly together in the same direction according to their master's direction and instruction.

Paul writes: as many/much slaves (referring to holy-people who are slaves) as are under a yoke (legally subject or in submission to a yoke as described above) they must lead before or in-front-of their minds to regard their own masters worthy of all honor (they must take the initiative, go beforehand in their minds to view their own masters, not some other person’s master but their own masters who are not believers, not holy-people, to be of equal-worth to every value, of like-value with all price, worth) – why? – for the purpose and result that the name of God and the teaching (the instruction, doctrine that originates from God; this word ‘teaching’ includes the teaching itself and the action of teaching it) may not be blasphemed (would not be evilly-spoken-of, treated with lack of Godly reverential-respect, calumniated).

A name is a word or phrase given to a person, etc, to be called and known-by, in order to designate and describe the distinguishing and distinctive constitution, character, quality, workings, etc. Here, Paul writes “the name of God” – the First, Superior or Ultimate One, the One Who has power, executes judgment, and emanates what He is, His power and light. He is the only true God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

As many slaves as are under a yoke they must lead their minds to regard their own masters worthy of all honor in order that the name of God and the teaching may not be blasphemed.

The slaves who presently have believing masters (masters adjectively described as: faithful, trusting relative-to God, believers) must not despise them because they are brothers (the slaves must not think down on or against them, the objective-cause being that they are the slaves’ brothers in the spirit category having the same gift of holy spirit within them, these masters are also holy-people) – but contrary to despising, rather they must serve-as-slaves (more-so, more and more, constantly increasing the slaves must serve in the capacity, the position of being slaves, bound-people carrying-out the appropriate service), the objective-cause being that these masters…

are believers (people who are faithful, trusting relative-to God) and
they are loved-people¹ (this word comes from the Greek word agape which is God's kind of love - people who are loved with God’s kind of love, beloved, truly they are loved by God Himself and by the Lord Jesus Christ and should be loved with Godly-love by all holy-people; they have holy spirit-life within them just like the slaves who are holy-people, true believers having the spirit of Christ within them),
these masters are people who are presently helping the good-work (the verb translated "to help" means literally to anti-receive, to receive/take in the opposite direction - therefore it means to give to another what you have already received and thereby you render the appropriate assistance and support in that specific circumstance; these masters are people helping the work that is good, the deed or end-product that is well, the result of action utilizing energy producing good effects; refer to Acts 4:9 for the only other occurrence of the word translated “good-work”).

These-things, that I am writing to you here in this letter, you must teach (instruct) and encourage (exhort, call others beside you as a father or mother would call their children beside them to help them to do what is right).

[Reference: Matthew 6:9; Luke 1:54; Acts 4:9, 24, 29, and 20:35; Romans 2:23, 24, and 14:16; Ephesians 6:5-9; I Timothy 1:20.]

Verses 3-11(a):

^.3If someone differently-teaches and comes-towards with words not being sound to the (words) of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the teaching according to reverence, ^.4(he is) having been conceited², well-knowing nothing but having-a-disease concerning seekings and word-fights out-from which becomes envy, strife, blasphemies, evil surmisings, ^.5frictions of men having been throughly-corrupted² (with respect to) the mind and having been deprived² of truth regarding-as-customary achievement to be the reverence – ^.6but the reverence with self-sufficiency is great achievement, ^.7for we carried nothing into the world because neither are we able to carry something out, ^.8but having through-nourishments and coverings we will be sufficient with these-things; ^.9but the (people) deliberately-determining to be wealthy fall-in into temptation and a trap and many unmindful and harmful intense-yearnings, the-ones-which sink men deep into (ruining) destruction and (losing) destruction, ^.10for the love-for-silver is a root of all the bad-things, of which some-people reaching-for were caused-to-wander away-from the belief and pierced themselves with many pains. ^.11(a)But you, oh man of God, must flee these-things….

If (since it is happening that) someone…

presently teaches differently (instructs people with a different instruction, different doctrine) and
comes/goes towards you or other people with words not being sound (not being healthy, in good health, well)…

a) to/with the words of, pertaining to and proceeding from our Lord Jesus Christ and

b) to/with the teaching according to reverence (the instruction, doctrine - this word ‘teaching’ includes the teaching itself and the action of teaching it - in accordance, conformity, proportion to/with good service, service that is well, service towards God being respectfully reverential of Him),…

…he is in the state of…

having been conceited and continuing conceited (beclouded, wrapped-up in his own importance, etc, as being engulfed in smoke in his mind and activities refusing to see, etc, what is outside of himself),
well-knowing nothing (fixing or setting his mind on not one thing to be aware of it)
but contrary to well knowing, he is having a disease (being definitely sick causing mental and/or physical decline) around, about, with reference to…

a) seekings (actions of seeking, questions, looking for answers, searches, inquiries, quests) and

b) word-fights (battles, combats about words, what is spoken, and using words as instruments to fight with)

out from which seekings and word-fights becomes (comes to pass)…
- envy (which is being jealous or resentful of another's considered-advantage with the desire to gain the same 'advantage' for oneself),
- strife (any form of it, such as rivalry, wrongful-competitiveness, contention or disputing and quarrelling),
- blasphemies (calumniations, evil speeches, actions of treating with lack of Godly reverential-respect),
- evil surmisings (mental perceptions with thoughts that are active with malignancy, mind conjectures exercising badness),
- frictions of men (thoroughly rubbing against one-another causing irritations, wearing each other out with their actions, activities),

specifically men who have been and still are throughly-corrupted with respect to the mind (utterly decayed, corrupted throughout or thoroughly with respect to their mind-set, mentality, the organ of mental perception; the singular word "mind" emphasizes that all of them have the same mind-set – throughly corrupted) and
these men have been deprived and still are deprived of truth (“to be deprived” means: to have something taken away-from them by another, the something being what they need for completeness, resulting-in their not-having completeness in that specific area even though they may still have a portion of it; these men are deprived of God’s truth, they may still have a portion of truth but not the wholeness of God’s essential reality, His inherent verity)

a. these men are presently regarding-as-customary achievement to be the reverence (they are considering or supposing it legally, lawfully and customarily okay that procurement, the process of acquiring the desired provision, the way and means that get ‘it’ done, achieving their own goal formed following upon items 1 and 2 above at the expense of other people, is the service towards God being respectfully reverential of Him)…

…– but the reverence with self-sufficiency is great achievement (the service towards God being respectfully reverential of Him in company and association with adequacy within ourselves being satisfied with enough and being strong to ward-off anything contrary, presently and actively is a large procurement, a great process of acquiring the desired provision, the way and means that get ‘it’ done, achieving the goal). [Reference: Acts 3:12, and I Timothy 2:2, 3:16, 4:7 and 8 for details of the reverence; and see II Corinthians 9:6-8 for details of self-sufficiency.]

In truth, we carried nothing into the world (all people bore, brought not one thing into the ordered arrangement that God created) the objective-cause being that neither are we able (we don’t have the able-power, we are not capable) to carry something out from the world, but during the time that we are having through-nourishments (thorough sustenances, the full supply of foods we need) and coverings (shelter including clothes) we will be sufficient with these-things (we will be adequate with these things being satisfied with enough and being strong to ward-off anything contrary). [Notice here that Paul does not write “self-sufficiency” as he did in verse 6; refer to also Hebrews 13:5.]

The people who are deliberately-determining to be wealthy (purposefully willing to be rich) fall in into…

temptation (trial, put to the test in the bad sense of being enticed to do wrong) and
a trap (snare, that-which would hold them fast so that they would be entangled in it) and
many unmindful and harmful intense-yearnings (a lot of strong-desires attached or fixed upon certain objects other-than God and the things of God, lusts that are lacking the application of their minds and therefore are unlearned or unintelligent, and that are injurious),

a) the intense-yearnings which actively sink men deep into ruining destruction (ruination and slaying, disaster with death) and losing destruction (loss, perdition, being utterly lost and ruined away-from God). [For the holy-person – this is only in reference to the walk/behavior category adversely affecting his fellowship with God. For the unsaved person – he remains in his unholy, dead, and losing state relative-to God unless of course he would change his mind and believe what God has given all of us to believe regarding Himself and His son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and thus receive God’s gift of holy spirit by means of the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 10:8-10).]

In truth, the love-for-silver is a root of all the bad-things (loving silver coins, money, money-loving, having the brotherly or friendly kind of love for money presently and actively is a root of all the things that do not issue from the only true God; the word ‘root’ here is used like a tree’s root relative to the tree itself and the fruits it produces; the love of silver is a root lifting-up giving nourishment to produce all the things contrary to what God would want people to have),…

…of which love for silver/money, a root of all the bad-things, some-people who are reaching-for (presently stretching themselves out to attain, they are reaching at/after it)…

have already been caused to wander away-from the belief (they were caused to err, not to stay in their rightful place, like a planet is constantly moving around when viewed from the earth unlike the stars which retain their position relative-to each other, they were led-astray away from the faith, away from what God has given us to believe, to have faith in, to trust) and
pierced themselves with many pains (they have actively penetrated through themselves, impaled themselves, as piercing themselves with/by something pointed so as their flesh is around it like putting a sharp rod through an animal so as to roast it on a spit, they pierced themselves with/by a lot of sufferings, distresses).

But emphatically you, oh man of God (you singular, individual, I’m addressing you emphatically as a member of mankind who belongs to God, a person who therefore should speak and do what God asks you to speak to people and do), you must flee these-things (you must actively put yourself in flight from the things I’ve just detailed above)….

[Reference: Matthew 3:10, 13:14; Luke 16:14; John 16:13; Acts 19:12; Romans 12:6; I Corinthians 5:5, 6:7 and 8, 12:7-13, 13:2 and 8, 14:6 and 22; II Corinthians 4:16, and 9:6-8; Philippians 4:11; I Thessalonians 5:20; I Timothy 1:3, 4, 10 and 18, 3:1, 3, 6, 7 and 16, 4:14; II Timothy 2:22-24, and 3:2, 17; Hebrews 13:5; II Peter 1:20 and 21; Revelation 1:3, 11:6, 19:10, and 22:6-20a.]

Verses 11-16:

^.11But you, oh man of God, must flee these-things, but you must pursue righteousness, reverence, belief, love¹, patient-endurance, meekness. ^.12You must contest the beautiful contest of the belief. You must take-hold-on the eternal life into which you were called and you expressed-agreement (regarding) the beautiful agreement before many witnesses. ^.13I charge before God, the (One) making-alive all-things, and Christ Jesus, the (one) having witnessed the beautiful agreement on Pontius Pilate: ^.14you to keep the spotless, irreproachable commandment up-until the shining-light of our Lord Jesus Christ ^.15which the Happy and Only Able (God), the King of the (ones) reigning-as-kings and Lord of the (ones) lording, will point-out in (His) own times – ^.16the Only (God) having immortality, unapproachable light dwelling, Whom not-one of men saw neither is able to see, to Whom (is) honor and eternal strongness, with-certainty.

You, oh man of God, must flee these-things (described in verses 3-5, 9, 10 above), but you must pursue (‘pursue’ being the opposite of ‘flee’; in the walk/behavior category during the everyday living of your life you must follow earnestly after)…

righteousness (justness, justice, the attributes of justification, the quality of being and doing what is just/right from God's point of view),
reverence (service towards God being respectfully reverential of Him),
belief (faith, what God says, the content of what He gives to believe, to have faith in, to trust),
love¹ (God’s kind of love, see I Timothy 1:5 and 14),
patient-endurance (a bearing-up, holding-out, enduring, remaining upwards or upright relative to God and the things of God under any obstacles),
meekness (tender receptiveness or receptivity towards God and the things of God).

You must contest the beautiful contest of the belief.

The word "contest" refers to being in a place of contest where there are two opposing parties conflicting against each other in order to be the one to gain the prize at the end of the contest. The usage of athletic terminology draws attention to holy-people and the truth of being together moving in the direction of the same objective, being on the same team in the same contest, not a different contest or on a different team.

Paul wrote to Timothy: you must contest the manifestly decorous, harmonious and acceptably good contest of the belief (pertaining-to, consisting-of, and proceeding-from the faith, what God gives to believe, to have faith in, to trust).

You must take-hold-on the eternal life (receive the eternal life to yourself so as to manifestly use it, in the sense of catching it with your hands and doing what is right, take hold of the holy spirit-life that has already been given to you and walk, behave in accordance with it)….

The Greek word aionios may be translated “eternal” or “agelong”. In the context here, the life being referred to will not end. It is eternal, agelong, lifelong, everlasting. It lasts throughout all durations of life, all ages from the time a person receives it. This life can only be received by God's giving of holy spirit by means of the Lord Jesus Christ. All holy-people (Christians) have received holy spirit-life within us, which is the spirit of Christ in us; it is the deposit, token, earnest of what we will receive at a future time. This holy spirit-life will remain for the duration of God's life which will not end. The full completeness for us will come to pass when our Lord Jesus Christ will come to gather all holy-people together with him giving us new spiritual bodies, the life of which will be holy spirit-life like the body he has already received from God, his Father and our Father, when God raised him up alive from-among the dead-people. Of course, the agelong duration of God’s life is without a beginning-age or an ending-age.

You must take-hold-on the eternal life into which eternal life you were called (invited) and you actively agreed regarding/with the beautiful agreement (you said the same thing, spoke the same words, spoke agreement with, assented to the same spoken thing, the same words, the speech of agreement that has a manifested decorous, harmonious and acceptable goodness) before many witnesses (in the sight and presence of a lot of people who have information, knowledge of this occurrence and they attest to it, they can confirm it on the strength of their own authority).

I charge (I pass this message on from myself to you) – before, in the sight and presence of…

God, the One Who is making-alive all things (giving life to all things, causing all things to be alive [some Greek texts have the verb meaning: bearing or giving birth alive, preserving alive the genus, offspring, posterity, lineage of all things]), and
Christ Jesus, the one who witnessed the beautiful agreement on Pontius Pilate ([some Greek texts read ‘Jesus Christ’] he is the one who actively had the information, knowledge and he attested to the same spoken thing, the same words, the speech of agreement that has a manifested decorous, harmonious and acceptable goodness, he confirmed it on the strength of his own authority to Pontius Pilate, a Gentile who was the imperial prefect, procurator, governor of the Roman Emperor over the people in Judea, Samaria and Idumea at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion):…

…you (Timothy) to keep the spotless, irreproachable commandment (to keep-an-eye-on, have in safekeeping, and therefore not neglecting or violating but able to watch-over, take-care-of, maintain, and be observant of what is enjoined or commanded by God, and which I am writing in this letter to you, the command that is stainless and it cannot be taken hold of, caught by someone wrestling against it) – for how long? – for the limited time-period that will end with the shining-light of our Lord Jesus Christ (the complete light being shone upon us, the illumination caused-by and emanating-from our, all holy-people’s, Lord Jesus Christ, here referring to the time when he comes to be present to gather all of us together with him in the air)…

…which shining-light…

the Happy and Only Able God (the One Who is felicitous, being in the continuing and lasting standing and state of happiness, and He is the only, alone and no other, capable God; He has the able-power, ability; God is the Happy and Only Able One)
the King of the (ones) reigning-as-kings (the Royal Ruler, the One Who is the Sovereign, having royal dominion and government and rule and territory and power, etc, of, pertaining to, over those who are presently and actively being kings of, pertaining to, over their own specific areas, kingdoms, and exercise their kingship; God is the King of the ones reigning as kings including the Lord Jesus Christ) and
Lord of the (ones) lording (Master Who exercises His dominion and authority, of, pertaining to, over those who are presently and actively being lords of, pertaining to, over their own specific area of lordship and exercise their dominion and authority; God is the Lord of the ones lording including the Lord Jesus Christ),
will point-out in His own times (God will indicate, as showing with His finger, the shining-light during/at His own specific seasons, the opportune occasions belonging to Him; these times will not be decided by anyone else, not even by the Lord Jesus Christ [notice that the word “times” is plural because there will be two specific occasions when the shining-light of our Lord Jesus Christ will be evidenced in this manner – the first will be when he comes to gather the church of holy-people together with him in the air described in I Corinthians 15:51-57, and I Thessalonians 4:13-17; the second will be when he comes to gather those who will believe after we holy-people have left the earth, during the “wrath” time-period described in Matthew chapter 24, I Corinthians 15:24-28, II Thessalonians 2:8, the Book of Revelation, and many old covenant references, and the Lord Jesus Christ will carry-out God’s intention to destroy the devil and his demons and all who oppose the only true God]) –

…

the Only God having immortality (God alone is the One Who is presently and actively having/holding the state of not being liable to death, deathlessness; God has never died and will never die, not at any time past, present, or future),
unapproachable light dwelling (absolute light, which is the opposite of dark, the absence of darkness; light that cannot be approached by another moving towards it for the purpose of being with that same light, this unapproachable light is housing, inhabiting God; no spirit or person can force its/his/her way into God’s light),
Whom not-one of men saw neither is able to see (nobody, no-one belonging to mankind has previously seen God to the end of perceiving and knowing Him with his/her mind, neither does anyone of mankind presently have the ability, able-power, capability to see God to the end of perceiving and knowing Him with his/her mind),
to Whom (God) is…
- honor (the estimation of being valuable, deemed to be worthy of price) and
- eternal strongness (agelong exerted-force, lifelong power-in-effect, everlasting exerted-strength),…

…with-certainty (amen, surely, truly!).

Rereading verses 11-16:

^.11But you, oh man of God, must flee these-things, but you must pursue righteousness, reverence, belief, love¹, patient-endurance, meekness. ^.12You must contest the beautiful contest of the belief. You must take-hold-on the eternal life into which you were called and you expressed-agreement (regarding) the beautiful agreement before many witnesses.

^.13I charge before God, the (One) making-alive all-things, and Christ Jesus, the (one) having witnessed the beautiful agreement on Pontius Pilate: ^.14you to keep the spotless, irreproachable commandment up-until the shining-light of our Lord Jesus Christ ^.15which the Happy and Only Able (God), the King of the (ones) reigning-as-kings and Lord of the (ones) lording, will point-out in (His) own times – ^.16the Only (God) having immortality, unapproachable light dwelling, Whom not-one of men saw neither is able to see, to Whom (is) honor and eternal strongness, with-certainty.

[Reference: Matthew 7:23, 14:31, 27:11ff; John 18:33-37ff; Acts 4:26, 7:17, 19, 9:27, 13:46, 16:1, 2, 17:22-31; Romans 10:9, 10, 16:27; I Corinthians 9:25, 12:31-14:1, 15:22-58; II Corinthians 9:13; Philippians 1:30; Colossians 1:11-20 and 29, 2:1, 3:12, 4:12; I Thessalonians 2:2, 4:13-17; I Timothy 1:11, 17, 2:2, 3:9, 13, 16, 4:10, 12, 5:7; II Timothy 4:1, 7 and 8; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 2:16, 8:9, 13:15; I John 1:5, 5:1-3.]

Verses 17-19:

^.17To the wealthy-people in the present age you must charge not to think-high-things nor to have hoped² on wealth’s unclearness but (to hope) on God, the (One) presenting wealthily to us all-things with-a-view-to enjoyment, ^.18to work-good, to be wealthy in beautiful works, to be givers-sharing-well, (people characterized by) sharing-in-common, ^.19treasuring-away for themselves a beautiful foundation into the-thing being about to (come) in order that they may take-hold-on the really-being life.

You must charge (pass the message on from yourself to) the people who are wealthy (rich) during the age that is now in progress (the present duration of life)…

not to think-high-things (not to have thoughts in their minds that are elevated, exalted in arrogance, high on their physical, material wealth)
nor to have hoped and continue to hope on wealth’s unclearness (to expect events and things to come to pass at a future time resting or based upon rich’s uncertainty, its lack of a goal or object and thus is indistinct, its vagueness, the irresoluteness belonging to wealth)
but contrary to thinking high things or hoping on wealth’s unclearness
to hope resting or based upon God Who is the One presenting wealthily to us (richly having or holding beside us, offering to us) all-things with-a-view-to enjoyment (everything is included in the all things which are into, directed to, for fruition, receiving and using, experiencing the benefits of all the things that God is presently and actively presenting to us richly)
to work-good (to actively expend energy carrying-out the good that issues from God, to effect and produce good, to work what is perfectly admirable from God's viewpoint)
to be wealthy in beautiful works (to be rich in beautiful produced-effects, deeds that have a manifested decorous, harmonious, and acceptable goodness; “works” can be defined as the things that are wrought, the deeds, the effects-produced having acted expending energy),
to actively be givers-sharing-well (people who impart, give what is well/good in company and association with others; this sharing is to benefit or profit both parties involved; the person sharing does not lose that-which he is sharing with another person, but rather he profits from it plus gives the other person the opportunity to also profit from it),
people characterized by sharing-in-common (people having the distinctive quality of sharing in common; adjectively described as being partakers of/in/with the same-thing, being participators with one-another of what is common to all, being sharers, participants, partners sharing what is common to both parties),
treasuring-away for themselves a beautiful foundation into the-thing being about to come (storing-up away, laying away in store for/to themselves a manifestly decorous, harmonious, and acceptably good foundation with a view to, directed to, for what is on the point of coming, the future when Christ comes to gather all holy-people together with him; a foundation is that-which is put or laid being fundamental, like the foundation of a building whereby the rest of the building stands on top of it and is supported by it)
in order that they may take-hold-on the really-being life (for the purpose and result that they would receive the life that is continuing present, actual, and truly being life to themselves so as to manifestly use it, in the sense of catching it with their hands and doing what is right, take hold of the holy spirit-life that has already been given to them and walk, behave in accordance with it).

We should notice that Paul did not write that wealthy people should give all their money and assets away and become poor in the physical, material category!

[Reference: Acts 14:17; Romans 11:20, 12:16; Ephesians 2:10, 4:28; I Timothy 4:10, 5:10.]

Verses 20 and 21(a):

^.20Oh Timothy, you must keep-watch (regarding) the matter-put-beside (you), turning-out-from the profane empty-sounds and antitheses of lying-named knowledge ^.21(a) which some-people promising failed concerning the belief.

Oh Timothy (I am addressing you emphatically by your name of Timothy; the name "Timothy" in Greek is Timotheos which means "honor, value, price, worth of/to God"), you must keep-watch regarding the matter put beside you (you must be vigilant to watch and guard what has been placed alongside you, deposited with you for you to keep it safe, the commitment; refer to I Timothy 1:18), turning-out or dislocating yourself from…

the profane empty-sounds (the sounds/voices that are empty of contents, vain, and adjectively described as: desecrated, trampled, polluted, violated, having crossed the threshold from what is holy and entered-into what is unholy, not sacred or initiated) and
antitheses of lying-named knowledge (antitheses are things that have been put/placed in positions of being anti, against the truth of God and the things of God; these antitheses are of, pertaining-to, consisting-of, and issuing-from falsely-named knowledge; speculation and theory given the pseudonym “knowledge” which in the English-speaking vocabulary may be called “science” or "gnosticism"; these antitheses are not of true knowledge but have been falsely given the designation of “knowledge” which is the word designated to be personal knowledge, a truly active and relative knowing, having knowledgeable information concerning that specific situation or circumstance),
which lying-named knowledge some-people promising (some people who are presently proclaiming, declaring the message of their own intention/will based on this pseudonym knowledge) failed concerning the belief (they have actively aimed off course, deviated from the mark, have not aimed at or endeavored to reach the goal around, about, with reference to the faith, the belief that God has given us to believe, to have faith in, to trust).

[Reference: I Timothy 1:6, 19, 3:9, 13; II Timothy 1:14, 2:16, 18. Note: verbs with a superscript 2 (²) immediately following them indicate the "perfect" tense - details are provided in the "Relevant Notes" link of this study.]

Verse 21(b):

^.21(b)(May) the grace (be) with you.

Paul's opening address to Timothy included grace, and now as he closes this letter he expresses his prayerful desire: may it be that the grace (the unmerited or undeserved favor which is the grace from God and the Lord Jesus Christ) is in company and association with you during the everyday living of your life, Timothy, and all those who may read this letter after your initial reading.

(May) the grace (be) with you.

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