2 Timothy 2:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Put

2 Timothy 1:6

2 Peter 1:13

Charging

That

Titus 3:9

To no

The subverting

Titus 3:11

General references

2 Timothy 2:23

Bible References

Put

for which reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands.

But I consider [it] right, for as long as I am in this habitation, to stir you up by a reminder,

Charging

I solemnly charge [you] before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom,

This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, [that] you no longer walk as the Gentiles walk: in the futility of their mind,

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to [you] in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more.

But we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, [that] you keep away from every brother who lives irresponsibly and not according to the tradition that they received from us.

I testify solemnly before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels that you observe these [things] without prejudice, doing nothing according to partiality.

I command you, in the sight of God who gives life to all [things] and Christ Jesus who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

That

But avoid pointless chatter, for it will progress to greater ungodliness,

Now receive the one who is weak in faith, [but] not for quarrels about opinions.

and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause useless speculations rather than God's plan [that is] by faith.

he is conceited, understanding nothing, but having a morbid interest concerning controversies and disputes about words, from which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions,

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and contentions and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and fruitless.

To no

And do not turn aside after the triviality, which have no value and cannot deliver, for they are triviality.

The priests did not say, 'Where [is] Yahweh?' and those who handle the law did not know me, and the shepherds have {rebelled against me}, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they went after [things which] do not profit.

Look, you [are] relying for yourselves on {deceitful words} without benefiting.

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in [the] day of distress, to you [the] nations will come from the ends of [the] earth, and they will say, "Our ancestors have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.

Look, I [am] against those who prophesy dreams of lies," {declares} Yahweh, "and tell them, and they caused my people to err through their lies, and in their recklessness, when I myself have not sent them nor commanded them, so they profit not this people at all," {declares} Yahweh.

What value [is] an idol when its carver has fashioned it, a molten idol, a teacher of lies? For [he who] fashioned his creation trusts in it, [though] making mute idols!

For what will a person be benefited if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what will a person give in exchange for his life?

For the training of the body is {somewhat} profitable, but godliness is profitable for everything, [because it] holds promise for the present life and for the [life] to come.

Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for [it is] good [for] the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited.

The subverting

But you shall not mention the burden of Yahweh, for the burden is to each one his word, and so you twist the words of [the] living God, Yahweh of hosts, our God

[and] said, "O [you who are] full of all deceit and of all unscrupulousness, [you] son of the devil, [you] enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord!

Because we have heard that some have gone out from among us--to whom we gave no orders--[and] have thrown you into confusion by words upsetting your {minds},

not that [there] is a different [gospel], except there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

knowing that such a person is perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned.

General references

But avoid foolish and uninformed controversies, [because you] know that they produce quarrels.