2 Timothy 2:1 - 2:26 | ASV

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¹Thou therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

²And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

³Suffer hardship with `me', as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

⁴No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of `this' life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

⁵And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowded, except he have contended lawfully.

⁶The husbandmen that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

⁷Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things.

⁸Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my gospel:

⁹wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.

¹⁰Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

¹¹Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him:

¹²if we endure, we shall also reign with him: if we shall deny him, he also will deny us:

¹³if we are faithless, he abideth faithful; for he cannot deny himself.

¹⁴Of these things put them in remembrance, charging `them' in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

¹⁵Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

¹⁶But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

¹⁷and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: or whom is Hymenaeus an Philetus;

¹⁸men who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some.

¹⁹Howbeit the firm foundation of God standeth, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his: and, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.

²⁰Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some unto honor, and some unto dishonor.

²¹If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master's use, prepared unto every good work.

²²after righteousness, faith, love, pace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

²³But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes.

²⁴And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,

²⁵in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,

²⁶and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.

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