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εὐαγγέλιον means gospel or good news, and in the Pastoral Epistles it names the entrusted message of God's saving work in Jesus Christ. The word is not a label for religious advice, church branding, moral improvement, or general encouragement.
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εὐαγγέλιον means gospel or good news, and in the Pastoral Epistles it names the entrusted message of God's saving work in Jesus Christ. The word is not a label for religious advice, church branding, moral improvement, or general encouragement.
The BSB source-word alignment has 76 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include gospel (71), [it] (2), good news (2), [the] gospel (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 4:23. Its strongest book concentrations include Philippians (9), Romans (9), 1 Corinthians (8), 2 Corinthians (8).
This entry includes 1 verse guide that explain exact original-language forms in context.
εὐαγγέλιον means gospel or good news, and in the Pastoral Epistles it names the entrusted message of God's saving work in Jesus Christ. The word is not a label for religious advice, church branding, moral improvement, or general encouragement. Paul calls it the glorious gospel of the blessed God, the message for which Timothy must not be ashamed, the revelation that Christ Jesus abolished death and brought life and immortality to light, and the proclamation centered on Jesus Christ, raised from the dead and descended from David.
Because εὐαγγέλιον appears only four times in the Pastoral Epistles, each occurrence is load-bearing. Together they show the gospel as entrusted doctrine, suffering-bearing testimony, death-conquering revelation, and resurrection-centered proclamation. The broader New Testament confirms the same center: the gospel begins with Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and is God's power for salvation to everyone who believes.
Pastoral teaching must therefore keep gospel language specific. The gospel is good news because God has acted in Christ. It summons faith, guards doctrine, gives courage under shame, and holds life and immortality before suffering servants.
In the Pastoral Epistles, εὐαγγέλιον names the entrusted and suffering-bearing message of Christ's saving work. The word appears four times, and each occurrence ties the gospel to God's glory, Christ's appearing, resurrection, and apostolic proclamation.
This is the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Canonical support: Mark opens by identifying the gospel with Jesus Christ, the Son of God. This keeps gospel language personally centered before the Pastoral Epistles apply it to entrusted ministry.
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
Canonical support: Paul calls the gospel God's power for salvation to everyone who believes. The Pastoral Epistles assume this saving power when they speak of gospel suffering and proclamation.
That agrees with the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.
The gospel agrees with sound teaching because it is the glorious gospel of the blessed God. Doctrine and gospel are not rivals in Paul's pastoral charge.
So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
Timothy must not be ashamed of the testimony or of Paul's imprisonment, but must join in suffering for the gospel by God's power. The gospel creates courage under cost.
And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,
The gospel illuminates life and immortality through the appearing of Christ Jesus, who abolished death. This is gospel as revealed victory, not vague religious optimism.
Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David, as proclaimed by my gospel,
Paul's gospel is summarized around Jesus Christ, raised from the dead and descended from David. Resurrection and messianic identity define the message Timothy must remember.
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Greek word. The glad proclamation of God's saving action through Christ, not merely good news generally
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 4 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
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εὐαγγέλιον is built from this root:
It defines the message of Romans as God’s saving announcement fulfilled in Christ. 1 Timothy 1:8-11
Identifies the royal proclamation central to Jesus’ ministry. Mark 1:1–8
Frames the message as a kingly announcement of salvation. Matthew 4:23–25
The gospel is the interpretive center; the law must be understood in relation to the saving message of Christ. Romans 1:1-7
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The Pastoral Epistles make εὐαγγέλιον both precious and costly. The gospel is glorious because it belongs to the blessed God, not because the messenger is impressive. It is powerful enough to bring life and immortality to light through Christ, yet costly enough that Timothy must be told not to be ashamed and to share in suffering for it. It is doctrinally definite enough to agree with sound teaching, yet personally centered enough to be summarized as Jesus Christ, raised from the dead and descended from David.
This protects churches from treating gospel as a mood word. Paul does not hand Timothy a brand, an outreach slogan, or a soft religious atmosphere. He entrusts him with news about what God has done in Christ. The gospel gives courage because death has been abolished. It gives boundaries because false teaching is not good news. It gives hope because the risen Davidic Messiah is the center.
2Tim.2.8
εὐαγγέλιον is a noun meaning good news or gospel. The word itself does not supply all doctrinal content; the surrounding proclamation does. In the Pastoral Epistles, that content is explicitly tied to the blessed God, Christ Jesus' appearing, death abolished, life and immortality illuminated, and Jesus Christ raised from the dead and descended from David. The lexical form should therefore be taught by its message, not by etymology alone.
The biblical story prepares for good news by promising God's saving reign, messianic hope, and restoration after exile and death. The New Testament identifies that good news with Jesus Christ. The Pastoral Epistles apply the same gospel to church order, suffering, entrusted doctrine, and final hope, showing that gospel clarity must govern both proclamation and pastoral practice.
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