1 Timothy 1:18

I put this charge ¹  before you, Timothy my child, in keeping with the prophecies once spoken about you, ²  in order that with such encouragement ³  you may fight the good fight.

2Co 10:3,4; Eph 6:12-18; Php 2:22; 1Ti 1:2; 1Ti 1:11,12; 1Ti 4:4; 1Ti 4:14; 1Ti 6:12; 1Ti 6:13,14,20; 2Ti 1:2; 2Ti 2:1; 2Ti 2:2; 2Ti 2:3-5; 2Ti 4:1-3; 2Ti 4:7; Tit 1:4; Phm 1:10

¹ sn This charge refers to the task Paul described to Timothy in vv. 3-7 above.

² sn The prophecies once spoken about you were apparently spoken at Timothy’s ordination (cf. 1 Tim 4:14) and perhaps spoke of what God would do through him. Thus they can encourage him in his work, as the next clause says.

³ tn Grk “that by them you might fight…” (a reference to the prophecies which can encourage him in his work).