To suffer hardship in company with
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G4777 names to share in suffering or endure hardship with someone, especially in costly fellowship with gospel ministry. Readers often come to this word asking about join me in suffering, suffering for the gospel, endurance, and Christian hardship.
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G4777 names to share in suffering or endure hardship with someone, especially in costly fellowship with gospel ministry. Readers often come to this word asking about join me in suffering, suffering for the gospel, endurance, and Christian hardship.
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include join me in suffering (2).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at 2 Timothy 1:8. Its strongest book concentrations include 2 Timothy (2).
G4777 names to share in suffering or endure hardship with someone, especially in costly fellowship with gospel ministry. Readers often come to this word asking about join me in suffering, suffering for the gospel, endurance, and Christian hardship. In the Pastoral Epistles, the word must be read inside the sentence, the paragraph, and the local charge to Timothy or Titus before it becomes a broader teaching category.
This companion keeps the search question useful while refusing to let a search term control the text. It helps shepherds, teachers, leaders, churches, groups, families, and disciples ask what the passage is actually doing, how the word serves the book argument, and how the gospel governs the application. It also guards against presenting Christian calling as influence without cost or treating suffering as proof that God's Word has failed.
The aim is not to create a shortcut around Scripture but to make the word a doorway back into Scripture with clearer questions and better boundaries.
Share in suffering; suffer hardship with matters for readers because it opens shared endurance in the gospel by the power of God.
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 is called to join in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
Timothy must share in suffering like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
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Greek word. Shared suffering in hardship; willingly enduring mistreatment alongside others in common cause.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
I suffer hardships together with
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.
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How this verb appears across 2 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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συγκακοπαθέω is built from these roots:
Christian ministry involves shared endurance in the face of opposition and difficulty. 2 Timothy 2:1-7
Teach G4777 by starting with the local passage and the burden that caused the word to matter there. The entry opens shared endurance in the gospel by the power of God. A faithful teacher should define the word plainly, show how the immediate context uses it, and then move carefully to related witnesses without pretending that one word proves every doctrine attached to the subject.
This matters for end users who may search for join me in suffering, suffering for the gospel, endurance, and Christian hardship but need more than a dictionary answer. The word should bring them back to Christ, the gospel, the household of God, and the obedience Scripture calls for. It corrects isolated discipleship that refuses costly solidarity with Christ's servants and people.
Keep the tone clear and sober: enough definition to orient the reader, enough canonical connection to deepen trust, and enough restraint to avoid making the word say more than the passage says.
2Tim.1.8
The compound joins togetherness with hardship. It does not glorify pain; it names costly participation in the gospel.
Use the Old Testament and wider canonical background only where the cited passages or the local lexicon artifact warrant it. The Pastoral Epistles remain the controlling entry point for this batch.
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