Parallel Verses
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;
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.
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.
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:
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
De
De
Pistis
Epikaleomai
References
Morish
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, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared, 22 and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart; 23 and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,
Phrases
Cross References
1 Timothy 6:11
and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;
Hebrews 12:14
peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
1 Corinthians 6:18
flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.
1 Timothy 1:5
And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,
1 Timothy 4:12
let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;
Psalm 119:9
Beth. With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe -- according to Thy word.
1 Corinthians 10:14
Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,
1 Peter 3:11
let him turn aside from evil, and do good, let him seek peace and pursue it;
Acts 9:14
and here he hath authority from the chief priests, to bind all those calling on Thy name.'
3 John 1:11
Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;
1 Chronicles 29:17-18
'And I have known, my God, that Thou art trying the heart, and uprightness dost desire; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these: and now, Thy people who are found here I have seen with joy to offer willingly to Thee.
Psalm 17:1
A Prayer of David. Hear, O Jehovah, righteousness, attend my cry, Give ear to my prayer, without lips of deceit.
Psalm 66:18-19
Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear.
Proverbs 6:5
Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright is His delight.
Ecclesiastes 11:9-10
Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.
Acts 7:59
and they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;'
Romans 14:17
for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;
Romans 14:19
So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;
Romans 15:5-6
And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;
1 Corinthians 1:2
to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place -- both theirs and ours:
1 Corinthians 1:10
And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,
1 Corinthians 14:1
Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,
1 Timothy 1:14
and exceedingly abound did the grace of our Lord, with faith and love that is in Christ Jesus:
1 Timothy 2:8
I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;