Key Verse Spotlight
2 Timothy 2:15 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
2 Timothy 2:15
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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.
And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; {canker: or, gangrene}
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