translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Or “the word.”


text: Or “be persistent.”


text: Grk “in season, out of season.”


text: Or “encourage.”


text: Grk “they”; the referent (the people in that future time) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Grk “in accord with.”


text: Grk “having an itching in regard to hearing,” “having itching ears.”


text: Or “sober,” “temperate.”


text: Grk “of my departure.”


text: Grk “all who have loved.”


text: Grk “having loved.”


text: For location see JP1-C1 ; JP2-C1 ; JP3-C1 ; JP4-C1 .


text: Grk “useful.”


text: Or “in serving me.”


text: For location see JP1-D2 ; JP2-D2 ; JP3-D2 ; JP4-D2 .


text: Grk “showed me much evil.”


text: Grk “against whom,” as a continuation of the previous clause. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.


text: Or “the preaching.”


text: Grk “might be completely fulfilled.”


text: Grk “save me.”


text: Grk “to whom.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.


text: Grk “unto the ages of the ages,” an emphatic way of speaking about eternity in Greek.


text: Grk “greet.”


text: For location see JP1-C2 ; JP2-C2 ; JP3-C2 ; JP4-C2 .


text: Grk “brothers,” but the Greek word may be used for “brothers and sisters” or “fellow Christians” as here (cf. BDAG 18 s.v. ἀδελφός 1, where considerable nonbiblical evidence for the plural ἀδελφοί [ adelfoi ] meaning “brothers and sisters” is cited).


text: C D Ψ Ï sy bo have ὁ κύριος ᾿Ιησοῦς Χριστός ( Jo kurio" Ihsou" Cristo" , “the Lord Jesus Christ”). As B. M. Metzger notes, although in a late book such as 2 Timothy, one might expect the fuller title for the Lord, accidental omission of nomina sacra is rare ( TCGNT 582). The shorter reading is thus preferred on both external and internal grounds.


text: D Ψ Ï lat sy) conclude this letter with ἀμήν ( amhn , “amen”). Such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27 ; Gal 6:18 ; Jude 25 ). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. Further, there are several excellent witnesses of the Alexandrian and Western texts ( א * A C F G 6 33 81 1739* 1881 sa) that lack the particle, rendering the omission the preferred reading.