2 Timothy 3:12 (WEB)

Passage

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

Nearby Context

2 Timothy 3:10 But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

2 Timothy 3:11 persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

2 Timothy 3:12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

2 Timothy 3:14 But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "desire", "live", "godly", "christ", "jesus", "suffer", and "persecution". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "desire" and "live", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "persecutions and sufferings those things that happened..." into verse 13's "But evil men and impostors will grow...", so "desire" and "live" belong inside that flow. In 2 Timothy context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "desire" and "live" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.