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The injunction
of 2 Tim. 1:12 has its counterpart in 1 Tim. 6:20
the term
occurs just one other time in the New Testament, also in 2 Tim:
(1:14).
occurs only two times in the New Testament, 2 Tim. 1:13 and 1 Tim. 1:16. Somewhat more striking is
which occurs three times in Luke, once in 3 John, and twice each in 1 and 2 Timothy (1 Tim. 1:10, 6:3; 2 Tim. 1:13, 4:3; along with four additional times in Titus). Particularly striking are the parallels between 2 Tim. 1:13
and 1 Tim. 6:3
and 2 Tim. 4:3
and 2 Tim. 1:10
The latter phrase can also be found in Titus 1:9 and 2:1.

is found identically in 2 Tim. 2:22 and 1 Tim. 6:11, and never in Paul–for obvious reasons, given Paul’s teaching on justification (which is not “pursued” by believers!); so too
in 2 Tim. 2:22 and 1 Tim. 1:5 is found nowhere else in Paul and only one other time in the New Testament (depending on the textual variant in 1 Pet. 1:22).

The term
occurs once in John and three times in Acts, but otherwise just in 2 Tim. 2:23 and 1 Tim. 6:4 (along with Titus 3:9; 1 Timothy also has a cognate hapax legomenon,
in 1:4). So too the phrase
is found only in 2 Tim. 2:16 and 1 Tim. 6:20. Moreover, the otherwise unattested
in 2 Tim. 2:26 is found as
in 1 Tim. 3:7.

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