Parallel Verses
Twentieth Century New Testament
Do your utmost to show yourself true to God, a workman with no reason to be ashamed, accurate in delivering the Message of the Truth.
New American Standard Bible
Be diligent to
King James Version
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Holman Bible
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth.
International Standard Version
Do your best to present yourself to God as an approved worker who has nothing to be ashamed of, handling the word of truth with precision.
A Conservative Version
Be diligent to present thyself approved to God, an irreproachable workman, correctly traversing the word of truth.
American Standard Version
Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.
Amplified
Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth.
An Understandable Version
Do your best to present yourself as a worker who is approved by God [and] does not have to be ashamed, [because you are] accurately handling [i.e., explaining] the message of truth.
Anderson New Testament
Strive to present yourself to God as approved, a workman that has no cause to be ashamed, rightly setting forth the word of truth.
Bible in Basic English
Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.
Common New Testament
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Daniel Mace New Testament
endeavour to approve yourself to God, as an artist that is not afraid of reproach, by rightly explaining the word of truth.
Darby Translation
Strive diligently to present thyself approved to God, a workman that has not to be ashamed, cutting in a straight line the word of truth.
Godbey New Testament
Study to present yourself to God approved, a workman not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Goodspeed New Testament
Do your best to win God's approval as a workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, but rightly shapes the message of truth.
John Wesley New Testament
Be diligent to present thyself unto God approved a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Julia Smith Translation
Be earnest to present thyself acceptable to God, a worker without shame, dividing rightly the word of truth.
King James 2000
Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, a worker having no need to be ashamed, guiding the word of truth along a straight path.
Modern King James verseion
Study earnestly to present yourself approved to God, a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Study to show thyself laudable unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, dividing the word of truth justly.
Moffatt New Testament
Do your utmost to let God see that you at least are a sound workman, with no need to be ashamed of the way you handle the word of the Truth.
Montgomery New Testament
Strive earnestly to present yourself unto God, tested and proved worthy by trial, a workman unashamed, ever cutting a straight path for the message of the truth.
NET Bible
Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.
New Heart English Bible
Do your best to present yourself approved by God, a workman who does not need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
Noyes New Testament
Study to present thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Sawyer New Testament
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a workman that will not be put to shame, rightly dividing the word of truth.
The Emphasized Bible
Give diligence, thyself, approved, to present unto God, - a workman not to be put to shame, skillfully handling the word of truth.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Be diligent to present thyself before God approved, a workman that need not blush, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Webster
Study to show thyself approved to God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Weymouth New Testament
Earnestly seek to commend yourself to God as a servant who, because of his straightforward dealing with the word of truth, has no reason to feel any shame.
Williams New Testament
Do your best to present yourself to God an approved workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, who properly presents the message of truth.
World English Bible
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
Worrell New Testament
Give diligence to present yourself approved to God, a workman not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Worsley New Testament
Endeavour to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Youngs Literal Translation
be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;
Themes
Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Holy ambition, general references to
Holy » General references to » Ambition
Names » Of the word of God » Word
Interlinear
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Devotionals
Devotionals about 2 Timothy 2:15
Devotionals containing 2 Timothy 2:15
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Timothy 2:15
Prayers for 2 Timothy 2:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Worker Approved To God And Not Ashamed
14 Remind people of all this; urge them solemnly, as in the sight of God, to avoid controversy, a useless thing and the ruin of those who listen to it. 15 Do your utmost to show yourself true to God, a workman with no reason to be ashamed, accurate in delivering the Message of the Truth. 16 Avoid profane prattle. Those who indulge in it only get deeper into irreligious ways,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
John 21:15-17
When breakfast was over, Jesus said to Simon Peter: "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others?" "Yes, Master," he answered, "you know that I am your friend." "Feed my lambs," said Jesus.
Luke 12:42
"Who, then," replied the Master, "is that trustworthy steward, the careful man, who will be placed by his master over his establishment, to give them their rations at the proper time?
Acts 2:22
Men of Israel, listen to what I am saying. Jesus of Nazareth, a man whose mission from God to you was proved by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God showed among you through him, as you know full well--
Acts 20:27
For I have not shrunk from announcing the whole purpose of God regarding you.
Romans 14:18
He who serves the Christ in this way pleases God, and wins the approval of his fellow men.
Romans 16:10
To that proved Christian Apelles; to the household of Aristobulus;
1 Corinthians 2:6
Yet there is a philosophy that we teach to those whose faith is matured, but it is not the philosophy of to-day, nor that of the leaders of to-day-men whose downfall is at hand.
1 Corinthians 3:1-2
But I, Brothers, could not speak to you as men with spiritual insight, but only as worldly-minded-mere infants in the Faith of Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:6
Our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be ministers of a New Covenant, of which the substance is, not a written Law, but a Spirit. For the written Law means Death, but the Spirit gives Life.
2 Corinthians 4:2
No, we have renounced the secrecy prompted by shame, refusing to adopt crafty ways, or to tamper with God's Message, and commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God, by our exhibition of the Truth.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore, whether in our home or absent from our home, our one ambition is to please him.
2 Corinthians 6:3-4
Never do we put an obstacle in any one's way, that no fault may be found with our ministry.
2 Corinthians 10:18
For it is not the man who commends himself that stands the test, but the man who is commended by the Lord.
Galatians 1:10
Is this, I ask, trying to conciliate men, or God? Am I seeking to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I should not be a servant of Christ.
Ephesians 1:13
And you, too, by your union with him, after you had heard the Message of the Truth, the Good News of your Salvation--you believed in him and were sealed as his by receiving the holy Spirit, which he had promised.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But, having been found worthy by God to be entrusted with the Good News, therefore we tell it; with a view to please, not men, but God who proves our hearts.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
We entreat you also, Brothers--warn the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, give a helping hand to the weak, and be patient with every one.
1 Timothy 4:6
Put all this before the Brethren, and you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, sustained by the precepts of the Faith and of that Good Teaching by which you have guided your life.
1 Timothy 4:12-16
Do not let any one look down on you because you are young, but, by your conversation, your conduct, your love, your faith, and your purity, be an example to those who hold the Faith.
Hebrews 4:11
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter upon that Rest, so that none of us fall through such disbelief as that of which we have had an example.
Hebrews 5:11-14
Now on this subject I have much to say, but it is difficult to explain it to you, because you have shown yourselves so slow to learn.
James 1:18
Because he so willed, he gave us Life, through the Message of the Truth, so that we should be, as it were, an earnest of still further creations.
2 Peter 1:10
Therefore, Brothers, do your best to put God's Call and Selection of you beyond all doubt; for, if you do this, you will never fall.
2 Peter 1:15
So I will do my best to enable you, at any time after my departure, to call these truths to mind.
2 Peter 3:14
Therefore, dear friends, in expectation of these things, make every effort to be found by him spotless, blameless, and at peace.
Matthew 13:52
Then he added: "So every Teacher of the Law, who has received instruction about the Kingdom of Heaven, is like a householder who produces from his stores things both new and old."
Mark 4:33
With many such parables Jesus used to speak to the people of his Message, as far as they were able to receive it;