2 Timothy 2:7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give you understanding in all things. There is no Christianity where there is no loving remembrance of Christ. If your contact with Him has not made Him your friend, whom you can by no possibility forget, you have missed the best result of your introduction to Him. It makes one think meanly of the chief butler that such a personality as Joseph's had not more deeply impressed him — that everything he heard and saw among the courtiers did not make him say to himself: There is a friend of mine in the prison hard by, that for beauty, wisdom, and vivacity would more than match the finest of you all. And it says very little for us if we can have known anything of Christ without seeing that in Him we have what is nowhere else, and without finding that He has become the necessity of our life, to whom we turn at every point. (Marcus Dods, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.WEB: Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things. |
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