Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
Timothy is able "to save" himself by adhering to the gospel. Peter, on Pentecost, offered a similar exhortation to his listeners: "Save yourselves," he says, "from this untoward generation" (Acts 2:40). Once God’s will has been revealed to us, we must respond and save ourselves by doing what we are told to do in that will. In this manner, Timothy was to save himself as well as his listeners: by faithful obedience to the gospel and continued adherence thereto.