Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you.
...But this is dramatic language which ascribes to evangelists direct the salvation which God himself effects indirectly through the gospel which they proclaim.
But this is dramatic language which ascribes to evangelists direct the salvation which God himself effects indirectly through the gospel which they proclaim.
Stott, J. R. W. (1996). Guard the truth: the message of 1 Timothy & Titus (p. 125). Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.