Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
New American Standard Bible
Now
King James Version
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Holman Bible
Flee
International Standard Version
Flee from youthful passions. Instead, pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace together with those who call on the Lord with a pure heart.
A Conservative Version
And flee juvenile impulses, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.
American Standard Version
But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Amplified
Run away from youthful lusts—pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those [believers] who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
An Understandable Version
But run from the evil desires of youth and pursue [the practice of] right living, faith, love and peace, along with those people who call on the Lord [i.e., in prayer] from a pure heart.
Anderson New Testament
Shun youthful desires, and follow righteousness, faithfulness, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Bible in Basic English
But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.
Common New Testament
Now flee from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Avoid the passions of youth. pursue justice, fidelity, benevolence and concord with all sincere christians.
Darby Translation
But youthful lusts flee, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.
Godbey New Testament
But fly from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, divine love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a clean heart.
Goodspeed New Testament
Fly from the cravings of youth, and go in pursuit of uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.
John Wesley New Testament
Flee also youthful desires; but follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace with them that call upon the Lord, out of a pure heart.
Julia Smith Translation
And flee youthful, eager desires: and follow justice, faith, love, peace, with them calling upon the Lord from a pure heart.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But flee from youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, [and] peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.
Modern King James verseion
But flee youthful lusts, and follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Lusts of youth avoid, and follow righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with them that call on the Lord with pure heart.
Moffatt New Testament
So shun the lusts of youth and aim at integrity, faith, love and peace, in the company of those who invoke the Lord out of a pure heart.
Montgomery New Testament
Flee from the passions of youth, but run after righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who out of a pure heart call upon the Lord.
NET Bible
But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
New Heart English Bible
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Noyes New Testament
But flee youthful lusts, and follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Sawyer New Testament
But avoid youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
The Emphasized Bible
But, from the youthful covetings, flee! and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, along with them who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But flee youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Flee from the passions of youth, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in the company of those who, with a pure heart, invoke the Lord.
Webster
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Weymouth New Testament
Keep a strong curb, however, on your youthful cravings; and strive for integrity, good faith, love, peace, in company with all who pray to the Lord with pure hearts.
Williams New Testament
You must keep on fleeing from the evil impulses of youth, but ever strive for uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in association with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.
World English Bible
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Worrell New Testament
But flee youthful desires; and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart.
Worsley New Testament
Flee youthful passions: and follow righteousness, fidelity, love, and peace, with all those that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart:
Youngs Literal Translation
and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;
Themes
Following » What to follow after
Love to man » Especially encouraged upon ministers
Lust » Fleeing from youthful lusts
Peace » Promised to believers » To be cultivated in the church
Topics
Interlinear
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Pistis
Epikaleomai
References
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Timothy 2:22
Prayers for 2 Timothy 2:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Worker Approved To God And Not Ashamed
21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and fit for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work. 22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 23 But foolish and ignorant questions avoid, knowing that they do produce strifes.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Timothy 6:11
But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
Hebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
1 Timothy 1:5
Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
1 Timothy 4:12
Let no man despise your youth; but be an example of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Psalm 119:9
[Beth] How shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to your word.
1 Corinthians 10:14
Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1 Peter 3:11
Let him turn away from evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and pursue it.
Acts 9:14
And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on your name.
3 John 1:11
Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that does good is of God: but he that does evil has not seen God.
1 Chronicles 29:17-18
I know also, my God, that you test the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, who are present here, to offer willingly unto you.
Psalm 17:1
[A prayer of David.] Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips.
Psalm 66:18-19
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Proverbs 6:5
Deliver yourself as a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Ecclesiastes 11:9-10
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Acts 7:59
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 14:19
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things with which one may edify another.
Romans 15:5-6
Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like minded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
1 Corinthians 1:2
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
1 Corinthians 1:10
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1 Corinthians 14:1
Follow after love, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy.
1 Timothy 1:14
And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 2:8
I desire therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.