2 Timothy 2:10 - Exposition

Sake for sakes, A.V.; also may for may also, A.V. Therefore ( δια τοῦτο ); for this cause. Some (Wiesinger, Alford, etc.) refer this to what follows, viz. "that the elect may obtain the salvation," etc., after the model of 1 Timothy 1:16 and Philemon 1:15 , where διὰ τοῦτο clearly refers to the words which follow. But the interposition of the words, διὰ τοὺς ἐκλεκτούς , is strongly adverse to this view. It seems, therefore, rather to refer collectively to all the considerations which he had just been urging upon Timothy, perhaps especially the last, of the resurrection of Christ, which he now again enforces by his own example of willing suffering in order that the elect may obtain the eternal salvation which is in Jesus Christ—adding, in Philemon 1:11 and Philemon 1:12 , the encouragement to suffering derived from the "faithful saying." I endure ( ὑπομένω ) ; the exact force of which is seen in the substantive ὑπομονή , patience, so frequently attributed to the suffering saints of God.