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| II Timothy 2: (ASV) |
| 1) Thou therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. |
| 2) And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. |
| 3) Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. |
| 4) No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier. |
| 5) And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully. |
| 6) The husbandman that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits. |
| 7) Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things. |
| 8) Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my gospel: |
| 9) wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound. |
| 10) Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. |
| 11) Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him: |
| 12) if we endure, we shall also reign with him: if we shall deny him, he also will deny us: |
| 13) if we are faithless, he abideth faithful; for he cannot deny himself. |
| 14) Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear. |
| 15) Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth. |
| 16) But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness, |
| 17) and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus; |
| 18) men who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some. |
| 19) Howbeit the firm foundation of God standeth, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his: and, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness. |
| 20) Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some unto honor, and some unto dishonor. |
| 21) If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master's use, prepared unto every good work. |
| 22) But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. |
| 23) But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes. |
| 24) And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing, |
| 25) in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth, |
| 26) and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will. |