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2 Timothy 2:15

Make every effort to render yourself approved by God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, handling the Word of the Truth correctly.

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In The King James Version

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

In Context

14Keep reiterating these things, exhorting them before the Lord not to argue about words to no useful purpose —it just ruins the hearers.

16But shun godless, empty chatter, because those who do it will become increasingly godless,

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Cross References

Mark 4:33It was with many such parables that He was speaking the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

John 21:15So, when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He says to Him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I'm fond of you.” He says to him, “Feed my lambs.”

Acts 20:27because I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Romans 16:10Greet Apelles, approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.

1 Corinthians 3:1Brothers, I was not able to address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:2Rather, we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in deception nor falsifying the Word of God, but by the open proclamation of the Truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of 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 →

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