2 Timothy 1:13

Hold to the kind of sound words that you have heard from me in the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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In The King James Version

Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

In Context

12For this reason, I also suffer these things. But I am not confounded. For I know in whom I have believed, and I am certain that he has the power to preserve what was entrusted to me, unto that day.

14Guard the good entrusted to you through the Holy Spirit, who lives within us.

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Cross References

Proverbs 3:21My son, let not these things move away from your eyes. Preserve law as well as counsel.

Proverbs 4:13Take hold of discipline. Do not dismiss it. Guard it, for it is your life.

Proverbs 23:23Purchase truth, and do not sell wisdom, or doctrine, or understanding.

Romans 6:17But thanks be to God that, though you used to be the servants of sin, now you have been obedient from the heart to the very form of the doctrine into which you have been received.

Philippians 4:9All the things that you have learned and accepted and heard and seen in me, do these. And so shall the God of peace be with you.

1 Thessalonians 5:21But test all things. Hold on to whatever is good.

Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 1:7-15

Cautions and Exhortations; Ministerial Fidelity. ( a. d. 66.) 6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. 7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; 9 Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according… Read the whole commentary →

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