What Does 2 Timothy 1:13 Mean?
Hold to the imprint of whole words which you have heard from me, in trust and love, which is in Jesus the Anointed One.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.THE KEY
The soundness of these words is a living pattern held in trust and love, within Jesus’ nature of deliverance.
THE MEANING
The words you hear now carry a soundness that can be held as a pattern, not reduced to a slogan. Their shape is lived through trust and love in Jesus’ nature, the deliverance that opens what is constricted.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that sound words are merely correct phrasing; this pattern is held together with trust and love.
THE ROOT
ὑγιαινόντων
hygiainontōn
GROWS FROM
ὑγι-
hygi-
healthy, sound, whole
The Greek describes words as healthy, carrying the image of soundness within them. English can make “sound” seem like a test of correctness alone; the root also suggests words whose character is whole and life-bearing.
ALSO GROWS
hygiainō: to be healthy or sound
ὑγιαίνω
The same root makes the words’ soundness a quality of health, not just accuracy.
hygiēs: healthy, sound, whole
ὑγιής
This branch brings out the wholeness carried beneath the phrase “sound words.”
ὑποτύπωσιν
hypotypōsin
GROWS FROM
τυπ-
typ-
an impression or imprint
“imprint” in this verse is hypotypōsin. The “form” is an impression, a pattern that can be received and held. English can make it sound like an abstract outline; the root carries the sense of a shape pressed into view.
ALSO GROWS
typos: pattern, model, impression
τύπος
This branch shows the “form” as a recognizable pattern rather than a loose collection of words.
antitypon: counterpart, corresponding form
ἀντίτυπον
This branch carries the idea of a form that corresponds to a pattern, deepening the sense of words held in a definite shape.
πίστει
pistei
GROWS FROM
πειθ-
peith-
to persuade, trust, rely upon
The word translated “faith” belongs to a family of trust and reliance. Here the pattern is held within trust and love, so its shape is bound to a lived relation rather than bare assent.
ALSO GROWS
peithō: to persuade, trust, rely upon
πείθω
This branch reveals the movement from being persuaded to placing trust in what is heard.
pepoithēsis: confidence, trust
πεποίθησις
This branch brings out trust as a settled reliance that holds the pattern together.
THE PATTERN
Words become a sound pattern when their form is held together with trust and love.
Pleasant words are like a dripping honeycomb, sweet to the living soul and healing to the bones.but doing the truth in love, we may grow into him in all things, who is the head, the Anointed One.If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not draw near to healthy words, even the words of our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, and to the teaching that is according to godliness;THE THREAD
If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not draw near to healthy words, even the words of our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, and to the teaching that is according to godliness;The Greek word rendered “wholesome” here shares the health-root used for “sound” in this verse. The echo joins both phrases to words whose pattern carries health, held in trust and love.
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