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2 Timothy 2 📜 📕 ↷
Grace and Perseverance
1 THOU therefore my son, be strong in the grace which is in Christ JESUS:📜💬📚
2 and the things which thou hast heard of me by many witnesses, these commend to faithful men, which shall be fit to teach others also.📜💬📚
3 Labour thou as a good soldier of Christ JESUS.📜💬📚
4 No man being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular businesses; that he may please him to whom he hath approved himself.📜💬📚
5 For he also that striveth for the mastery, is not crowned unless he strive lawfully.📜💬📚
6 The husband-man that laboureth, must first take of the fruits.📜💬📚
7 Understand what I say: for our Lord will give thee in all things understanding.📜💬📚
8 Be mindful that our Lord JESUS Christ is risen again from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my Gospel,📜💬📚
9 wherein I labour even unto bands, as a malefactor: but the word of God is not tied.📜💬📚
10 Therefore I sustain all things for the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation, which is in Christ JESUS, with heavenly glory.📜💬📚
11 A faithful saying. For if we be dead with him, we shall live also together.📜💬📚
12 If we shall sustain, we shall also reign together. If we shall deny, he also will deny us.📜💬📚
13 If we believe not; he continueth faithful, he can not deny himself.📜💬📚
Lord's Approved Workman
14 These things admonish: testifying before our Lord. Contend not in words, for it is profitable for nothing, but for the subversion of them that hear.📜💬📚
15 Carefully provide to present thy self approved to God, a work-man not to be confounded, rightly handling the word of truth.📜💬📚
16 But profane and vain speeches avoid: for they do much grow to impiety:📜💬📚
17 and their speech spreadeth as a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus:📜💬📚
18 who have erred from the truth, saying that the resurrection is done already, and have subverted the faith of some.📜💬📚
19 But the sure foundation of God standeth, having this seal, Our Lord knoweth, who be his, and let every one depart from iniquity that nameth the name of our Lord.📜💬📚
20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth: and certain indeed unto honour, but certain unto contumely.📜💬📚
21 If any man therefore shall cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified & profitable to our Lord, prepared to every good work.📜💬📚
22 But youthful desires, fly, and pursue justice, faith, charity, and peace with them that invocate our Lord from a pure heart.📜💬📚
23 And foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they ingender brawls.📜💬📚
24 But the servant of our Lord must not wrangle: but be mild toward all men, apt to teach, patient,📜💬📚
25 with modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: lest sometime God give them repentance to know the truth:📜💬📚
26 and they recover themselves from the snares of the devil, of whom they are held captive at his will.📜💬📚
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