2 Timothy 4:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

Demas

Colossians 4:14

Philemon 1:24

Hath

Having

Thessalonica

Acts 17:1

Galatia

Acts 16:6

Acts 18:23

Galatians 1:2

Titus

Titus 1:4

General references

Luke 14:33

1 Timothy 5:15

Bible References

Demas

Luke, our dear doctor, sends you his greeting, and Demas sends his.

And Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow-workers, send theirs.

Hath

At my first trial no one stood by me. They all deserted me. May it never be counted against them!

You know, of course, that all our friends in Roman Asia turned their backs on me, and among them Phygellus and Hermogenes.

The whole of this occurred in fulfillment of the Prophetic Scriptures. Then the disciples all forsook him and fled.

After this, Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and went to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

But Paul felt that they ought not to take with them the man who had deserted them in Pamphylia, and had not gone on with them to their work.

Leaving the straight road, they have gone astray and followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on the reward for wrong-doing,

Having

"Master," said another, "I will follow you; but first let me say good-bye to my family."

"If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes and his very life, he can be no disciple of mine.

No servant can serve two masters, for, either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."

Remember Lot's wife.

They are all pursuing their own aims and not those of Christ Jesus.

Love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the Faith, and have been pierced to the heart by many a regret.

Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;

because all that has received the new Life from God conquers the world. And this is the power that has conquered the world--our faith!

Thessalonica

After passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, Paul and Silas came to Thessalonica. Here the Jews had a Synagogue;

Galatia

They next went through the Phrygian district of Galatia, but were restrained by the Holy Spirit from delivering the Message in Roman Asia.

After making some stay in Antioch, he set out on a tour through the Phrygian district of Galatia, strengthening the faith of all the disciples as he went.

And from all the Brothers here.

Titus

I could get no peace of mind because I failed to find Titus, my Brother; so I took leave of the people there, and went on to Macedonia.

But God, who encourages the downcast, has encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.

And this led us to urge upon Titus that, as he had started the work for you, he should also see to the completion of this expression of your love.

Fourteen years afterwards I went up to Jerusalem again with Barnabas, and I took Titus also with me.

To Titus, my true Child in our one Faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Savior, bless you and give you peace.

General references

And so with every one of you who does not bid farewell to all he has--he cannot be a disciple of mine.

There are some who have already left us, to follow Satan.