2 Timothy 2:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Δοῦλον δὲ Κυρίου οὐ δεῖ μάχεσθαι· ἀλλʼ ἤπιον εἶναι πρὸς πάντας, διδακτικόν, ἀνεξίκακον,

Transliteration

Doulon de Kyriou ou dei machesthai; but ēpion einai pros pantas, didaktikon, anexikakon,

Grammar Details

• *Doulon*: accusative, masculine, singular - servant/slave
• *de*: conjunction - but/and
• *Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Lord
• *ou*: negative particle - not
• *dei*: present, indicative, active, 3rd singular, impersonal - it is necessary
• *machesthai*: present, infinitive, middle - to quarrel
• *all*: adversative conjunction - but
• *ēpion*: accusative, masculine, singular, adjective - gentle
• *einai*: present, infinitive, active - to be
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - toward
• *pantas*: accusative, masculine, plural, adjective - all
• *didaktikon*: accusative, masculine, singular, adjective - able to teach
• *anexikakon*: accusative, masculine, singular, adjective - patient of wrongs

Word Meanings

• *Doulon*: servant/slave/bondservant
• *Kyriou*: of Lord/Master
• *dei*: it is necessary/must/ought
• *machesthai*: to quarrel/fight/strive
• *ēpion*: gentle/mild/kind
• *didaktikon*: able to teach/skillful in teaching
• *anexikakon*: patient of wrongs/forbearing/tolerant

Referenced Verses

• 1 Tim 3:2-3 : 2 The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3 no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;
• Titus 3:2 : 2 to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.
• Titus 1:7 : 7 For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;
• Phil 2:14 : 14 Do all things without murmurings and questionings:
• Col 3:13 : 13 forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:
• 1 Thess 2:7 : 7 But we were gentle in the midst of you, {G302} as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:
• Eph 4:2 : 2 with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
• Phil 2:3 : 3 [ doing] nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind {G2233} each counting other better than himself;
• Acts 23:9 : 9 And there arose a great clamor: and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: and what if a spirit hath spoken to him, or an angel?
• 2 Cor 10:1 : 1 Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:
• Isa 40:11 : 11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those that have their young.
• Dan 6:20 : 20 And when he came near unto the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
• Matt 12:19 : 19 He shall not strive, nor cry aloud; Neither shall any one hear his voice in the streets.
• Acts 7:26 : 26 And the day following he appeared unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
• Titus 1:9 : 9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.
• 1 Tim 6:11 : 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
• Jas 1:19-20 : 19 Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
• Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first {G3303} pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, {G2532} without hypocrisy.
• Jas 4:2 : 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot {G3756} obtain: ye fight and war; {G1161} ye have not, because ye ask not.
• 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Finally, [be] ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:
• Jude 1:3 : 3 Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.
• Titus 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
• Jas 1:1 : 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting.
• 2 Chr 24:6 : 6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of Jehovah, and of the assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?
• Acts 15:2 : 2 And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and questioning with them, [the brethren] appointed that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
• Deut 34:5 : 5 So Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Jehovah.
• John 6:52 : 52 The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
• 2 Cor 10:4 : 4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),
• Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• Josh 1:1 : 1 Now it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of Jehovah, that Jehovah spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,