2 Timothy 2:15
Be diligent to present thyself approved to God, an irreproachable workman, correctly traversing the word of truth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
16But shun profane babblings, for they will advance to greater impiety,
Cross References
Mark 4:33And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
John 21:15So when they ate breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me more than these things? He says to him, Yea, Lord. Thou know that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs.
Acts 20:27For I did not withdraw from declaring to you the whole plan of God.
Romans 16:10Salute Apelles, a man reliable in Christ. Salute the men from those of Aristobulus.
1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to the childlike in Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:2But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.
Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 2:15-19
Cautions against Error. ( a. d. 66.) 14 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. 15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. 17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus; 18 Who concerning the truth have… Read the whole commentary →