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 this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;

Charging

I command you therefore before God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his Kingdom:

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

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to live and to please God, even as you are living, that you excel more and more.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

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

That

But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause speculation, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith?

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

To no

Do not turn aside to go after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

The priests did not say, 'Where is the LORD?' And those who handle the law did not know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.

"LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, 'Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,' says the LORD, 'and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I did not send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all,' says the LORD.

"What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

The subverting

You shall mention the burden of the LORD no more: for every man's own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

and said, "Full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, to whom we gave no commandment;

and there is not another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.

General references

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.