2nd Timothy Chapter 3 verse 17 Holy Bible

ASV 2ndTimothy 3:17

That the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.
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BBE 2ndTimothy 3:17

So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.
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DARBY 2ndTimothy 3:17

that the man of God may be complete, fully fitted to every good work.
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KJV 2ndTimothy 3:17

That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
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WBT 2ndTimothy 3:17


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WEB 2ndTimothy 3:17

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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YLT 2ndTimothy 3:17

that the man of God may be fitted -- for every good work having been completed.
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2nd Timothy 3 : 17 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - Complete for perfect, A.V.; furnished completely for throughly furnished, A.V.; every good work for all good works, A.V. Complete (ἄρτιος); only here in the New Testament, but common in classical Greek. "Complete, perfect of its kind" (Liddell and Scott). Furnished completely (ἐξηρτισμένος, containing the same root as ἄρτιος); elsewhere in the New Testament only in Acts 21:5 in the sense of "completing" a term of days. It is nearly synonymous with καταρτίζω (Matthew 21:16; Luke 6:40; 2 Corinthians 13:11; Hebrews 13:21; 1 Peter 5:10). In late classical Greek ἐξαρτίζω means, as here, "to equip fully." As regards the question whether the man of God is restricted in its meaning to the minister of Christ, or comprehends all Christians, two things seem to decide in favour of the former: the one that "the man of God" is in the Old Testament invariably applied to prophets in the immediate service of God (see 1 Timothy 6:11, note); the other that in 1 Timothy 6:11 it undoubtedly refers to Timothy in his character of chief pastor of the Church, and that here too the whole force of the description of the uses and excellence of Holy Scripture is brought to bear upon the exhortations in ver. 14, "Continue thou in the things which thou hast heard," addressed to Timothy as the Bishop of the Ephesian Church (see, too, ch. 4:1-5, where it is abundantly clear that all that precedes was intended to bear directly upon Timothy's faithful and vigorous discharge of his office as an evangelist).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.--The "man of God" here is no official designation, but simply designates the Christian generally, who is striving, with his Master's help, to live a life pleasing to God; and the "good works" have no special reference to the labours of Timothy and his brother presbyters, but include all those generous and self-sacrificing acts to which, in these Epistles, so many references have been made.It was in the Holy Scriptures that the true servant of the Lord, the man of God, would find defined with clearness and precision the nature of those works the Holy Spirit was pleased to call "good."