2 Timothy 2:15
Be diligent to present thyself before God approved, a workman that need not blush, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
16But profane vain bablings avoid: for they will proceed to greater lengths of impiety.
Cross References
Mark 4:33And with many such like parables spake he to them the word.
John 21:15When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him, Yes, Lord! thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him, Feed my lambs.
Acts 20:27For I have concealed nothing, so as not repeatedly to declare to you the whole counsel of God.
Romans 16:10Salute Apelles the approved in Christ. Salute those who are of the family of Aristobulus.
1 Corinthians 3:1AND I, brethren, have been unable to speak to you as unto spiritual men, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:2but have renounced all shameful secret practices, not conducting ourselves with artifice, nor deceitfully disguising the word of God, but by clear manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience as in the presence 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 →