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

Matthew 16:26

1 Timothy 4:8

Hebrews 13:9

The subverting

General references

2 Timothy 2:23

Bible References

Put

For this reason let me remind you to keep ever blazing that gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

So I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," to rouse you by way of reminding you,

Charging

I adjure you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is about to judge the living and the dead??y his appearing and his kingdom, I adjure you??2 proclaim the message, be urgent in season and out of season; convince, rebuke, encourage, with never-failing patience and teaching.

This then I tell you and implore you in the Master's name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds;

Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God??nd you are actually doing so??hat you abound in it yet more and more.

I summon you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to shun any brother who leads an idle and disorderly life, which is not according to the rule you received from me.

I charge you solemnly in the presence of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice against any man, and do nothing out of partiality.

In the presence of God who gives life to all, and of Christ Jesus who bore witness to the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

That

but avoid profane babble; for people will go farther and farther in impiety,

Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of deciding doubtful points.

nor to be paying attention to myths and interminable genealogies, which tend to promote discussions rather than a stewardship entrusted by God, a stewardship which is in faith.

he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions,

But avoid foolish questionings and genealogies and dissensions and wranglings about the law; for these are unprofitable and empty.

To no

What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

For physical training is of some small service, but godliness is of service in everything; since it carries with it a promise of life, both here and hereafter.

Do not allow yourselves to be swept away by various and strange teachings. For it is a beautiful thing to be established in heart by grace, and not by regulations regarding food, from which those that occupied themselves with them have derived no benefit.

The subverting

"O full of all craft and cunning, you son of the devil! You enemy of all goodness! Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

"as we have heard that some of your number who went out from us have troubled you with words and upset your souls, without having received any such instruction from us;

for another gospel, which indeed is not another; only there are certain individuals who are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.

you may be sure that such a man is perverted and sinning, and is self-condemned.

General references

Ever shun foolish and puerile discussions, for you know that they lead to quarrels.