2 Timothy 2:5
Then, too, whoever strives in a competition is not crowned, unless he has competed lawfully.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
In Context
6The farmer who labors ought to be the first to share in the produce.
Cross References
Luke 13:24“Strive to enter through the narrow gate. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and not be able.
Philippians 1:15Certainly, some do so even because of envy and contention; and others, too, do so because of a good will to preach Christ.
2 Timothy 4:7I have fought the good fight. I have completed the course. I have preserved the faith.
Hebrews 2:9Yet we understand that Jesus, who was reduced to a little less than the Angels, was crowned with glory and honor because of his Passion and death, in order that, by the grace of God, he might taste death for all.
James 1:12Blessed is the man who suffers temptation. For when he has been proven, he shall receive the crown of life which God has promised to those who love him.
Revelation 2:10You should fear nothing amid those things which you will suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, so that you may be tested. And you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give to you the crown of life.
Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 2:2-8
Ministerial Fortitude. ( a. d. 66.) 1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 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. 3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 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. 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned,… Read the whole commentary →