2Ti 2:11-12 | PNT | STEP | It is a faithful saying . A true saying. Some think that these two verses, , were part of an early hymn. If we be dead with [him] . Rather, as in the Revised Version, "Died with him". Compare . The reference is to death to the old life, and burial into the death of Christ at baptism.

2 Timothy 2:11-12

It is a faithful saying. A true saying. Some think that these two verses, 2Ti 2:11,12, were part of an early hymn.

If we be dead with [him]. Rather, as in the Revised Version, "Died with him". Compare Ro 6:4,5,8 Col 2:12. The reference is to death to the old life, and burial into the death of Christ at baptism. If we suffer, we shall also reign with [him]. We die in order to live. So our suffering with Christ "worketh out for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory" (2Co 4:17). Compare also Ro 8:17 Mt 19:27,28.

If we deny [him], he also will deny us. See Mt 10:33.