Paul's letters
2 Timothy
Paul’s last letter, from a Roman cell, urging Timothy to guard the gospel and “preach the word.”
Paul wrote knowing his death was near: “I am already being offered” (2 Timothy 4:6). He asked Timothy to come before winter and to bring his cloak and books (4:13, 21).
Written at: Rome (2 Timothy 1:16–17)
Kinds of writing
- Letter 100%
Key verses
Every Scripture is God-breathed. Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3:16 (World English Bible)
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On the timeline
Paul writes 2 Timothy, his last letterPeter and Paul are martyred in Rome
2 Timothy quotes or alludes to the Old Testament 1 time (counted in the site’s Old in the New).
Dating notes
This timeline plots AD 67, the year of Paul’s death in Ussher’s chronology. The span is an estimate; Scripture doesn’t say when the book was written.