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2 Timothy 2:14 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive ➔ not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. "
2 Timothy 2:14
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
If we suffer, we shall ➔ also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive ➔ not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
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2 Timothy 2:1
"Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus."
2 Timothy 2:2
"And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also."
2 Timothy 2:3
"Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ."
2 Timothy 2:4
"No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier."
2 Timothy 2:5
"And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he ➔ not crowned, except he strive lawfully."
2 Timothy 2:6
"The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits."
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