Commentary on 1 Timothy 1:12-17
Teaching morality by proposing striking contrasts has long been an [...]
Second Reading
Commentary on 1 Timothy 2:1-7
These verses near the beginning of what’s known as the Pastoral Epistles—that is, 1 and [...]
Commentary on 1 Timothy 6:6-19
It is often noted that this passage from 1 Timothy [...]
Commentary on 2 Timothy 3:14—4:5
Once again in these verse from chapters three and four [...]
Commentary on 2 Timothy 2:8-15
This reading from 2 Timothy comes to us in a [...]
Commentary on 2 Timothy 1:1-14
Second Timothy begins—as New Testament letters often do—with a greeting, [...]
Commentary on Romans 3:19-28
Our lectionary text belongs to Romans 1:18—4:2, in which Paul presents the thesis of “God’s [...]
Commentary on 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18
It is debated whether the apostle Paul himself wrote the [...]
Commentary on Ephesians 1:11-23
In the western portion of the northern hemisphere, the church [...]
Commentary on 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12
While the authorship of 2 Thessalonians is questioned by many [...]