2 Timothy 1:17
 2 Timothy 1:17 
New International Version (©2011)
On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me.

New Living Translation (©2007)
When he came to Rome, he searched everywhere until he found me.

English Standard Version (©2001)
but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me earnestly and found me—

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me--

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he diligently searched for me and found me.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Instead, when he arrived in Rome he searched diligently for me and found me.

NET Bible (©2006)
But when he arrived in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
But also when he came to Rome, he sought me with diligence and found me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When he arrived in Rome, he searched hard for me and found me.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.

American King James Version
But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.

American Standard Version
but, when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me

Douay-Rheims Bible
But when he was come to Rome, he carefully sought me, and found me.

Darby Bible Translation
but being in Rome sought me out very diligently, and found me --

English Revised Version
but, when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me

Webster's Bible Translation
But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.

Weymouth New Testament
Nay, when he was here in Rome, he took great pains to inquire where I was living, and at last he found me.

World English Bible
but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me

Young's Literal Translation
but being in Rome, very diligently he sought me, and found;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:15-18 The apostle mentions the constancy of Onesiphorus; he oft refreshed him with his letters, and counsels, and comforts, and was not ashamed of him. A good man will seek to do good. The day of death and judgment is an awful day. And if we would have mercy then, we must seek for it now of the Lord. The best we can ask, for ourselves or our friends, is, that the Lord will grant that we and they may find mercy of the Lord, when called to pass out of time into eternity, and to appear before the judgment seat of Christ.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 17. - Sought for sought out, A.V.; diligently for very diligently, A.V. and T.R.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But when he was in Rome,.... Upon some business or another, where the apostle was a prisoner:

he sought me out very diligently, and found me; as there might be many prisons in Rome, he went from one to another, till he found him; and was one of those to whom Christ will say hereafter, "I was in prison and ye came unto me", Matthew 25:36 or the reason of his going from place to place in quest of him was this; the apostle was not in any particular place of confinement, but had a lodging where he was kept by a soldier, and which with some difficulty Onesiphorus found out: the manner of his bonds was this; he had a long chain fastened at one end to his right arm, and at the other to the left arm of the soldier that kept him, who constantly attended him in this form, wherever he went; and it is possible that in this way he might have liberty to go about and visit his friends; and this might still make it more difficult for Onesiphorus to find him.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

17. found me—in the crowded metropolis. So in turn "may he find mercy of the Lord in that day" when the whole universe shall be assembled.


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Hold to Sound Teaching
16The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: 17But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me. 18The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered to me at Ephesus, you know very well.

2 Timothy 1:16 May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains.
2 Timothy 1:18 May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! You know very well in how many ways he helped me in Ephesus.