Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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Gill's Exposition
Flee also youthful lusts,.... Meaning not lusts of uncleanness, lasciviousness, and filthiness; nor any of those follies and vanities which the youthful age usually lusts and desires after, to which…
Barnes' Notes
Flee also youthful lusts - Such passions as youth are subject to. On the word “flee,” and the pertinency of its use in such a connection, see the notes at 1Co 6:18. Paul felt that Timothy, then a…
Adam Clarke
Flee also youthful lusts - Not only all irregular and sensual desires, but pride, ambition, and, above all, the lust of power, to which most men will sacrifice all other propensities, their ease,…
I. Paul here exhorts Timothy to beware of youthful lusts, Ti2 2:22. Though he was a holy good man, very much mortified to the world, yet Paul thought it necessary to caution him against youthful…
Cambridge Bible
Flee also youthful lusts Here, as in 2Ti 2:16, and again below 2Ti 2:23, the article has a certain emphasis, bringing forward again and again the different parts of the old theme -the false teachers,…
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