Parallel Verses
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And if a man contend in the public games, he is not crowned victor, unless he contend according to the laws.
New American Standard Bible
Also if anyone
King James Version
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
Holman Bible
Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
International Standard Version
Moreover, no one who is an athlete wins a prize unless he competes according to the rules.
A Conservative Version
And also if any man competes, he is not crowned unless he competes lawfully.
American Standard Version
And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully.
Amplified
And if anyone competes as an athlete [in competitive games], he is not crowned [with the wreath of victory] unless he competes according to the rules.
An Understandable Version
And if a person competes as an athlete, he is not awarded the victor's crown unless he competes according to the rules.
Anderson New Testament
And if any one also contend in the public games, he is not crowned, unless he contend according to the laws.
Bible in Basic English
And if a man takes part in a competition he does not get the crown if he has not kept the rules.
Common New Testament
Also if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules.
Daniel Mace New Testament
a combatant does not receive the crown, unless he has observ'd the laws of the games.
Darby Translation
And if also any one contend in the games, he is not crowned unless he contend lawfully.
Godbey New Testament
But if indeed any one may fight, he is not crowned unless he may fight lawfully.
Goodspeed New Testament
No one who competes in the games is awarded a crown unless he obeys the rules.
John Wesley New Testament
And if a man strive, he is not crowned, unless he strive lawfully.
Julia Smith Translation
And also if any contend for a prize, he is not crowned, except he contend for a prize lawfully.
King James 2000
And if a man also competes as an athlete, yet is he not crowned, unless he strives lawfully.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And also if anyone competes he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
Modern King James verseion
And also if anyone competes, he is not crowned unless he competes lawfully.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And though a man strive for a mastery, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
Moffatt New Testament
Again, a competitor in the games is not crowned unless he observes the rules.
Montgomery New Testament
And again, an athlete is not crowned unless he obeys the rules of the game.
NET Bible
Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, he will not be crowned as the winner unless he competes according to the rules.
New Heart English Bible
Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
Noyes New Testament
And if a man contendeth in the games, he is not crowned, unless he contendeth lawfully.
Sawyer New Testament
And if a man contends as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he contends lawfully.
The Emphasized Bible
If, moreover, any man, contend even in the games, he is not crowned, unless, lawfully, he contend;
Twentieth Century New Testament
No athlete is ever awarded the wreath of victory unless he has kept the rules.
Webster
And if a man also striveth for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he striveth lawfully.
Weymouth New Testament
And if any one takes part in an athletic contest, he gets no prize unless he obeys the rules.
Williams New Testament
No contestant in the games is crowned, unless he competes according to the rules.
World English Bible
Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
Worrell New Testament
And, if also one contends in the games, he is not crowned, unless he contends lawfully.
Worsley New Testament
And if any one contend in the public games, he gains not the crown unless he contend fairly.
Youngs Literal Translation
and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;
Themes
Righteous » Compared with » Wrestlers
The Roman empire » Allusions to grecian game adapted by » Rules observed in conducting
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Timothy 2:5
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Verse Info
Context Readings
Exhortation To Be Strong In Grace
4 No man who enters the army involves himself with secular affairs; that he may please the person who hath enlisted him. 5 And if a man contend in the public games, he is not crowned victor, unless he contend according to the laws. 6 The husbandman who toils is the first who ought to partake of the fruits.
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Cross References
Luke 13:24
Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the price? So run, that ye may obtain.
Philippians 1:15
Some indeed do it in a spirit of envy and strife; but some also preach Christ with cordial good-will:
Colossians 1:29
for which also I am labouring, conflicting in the energy of his might, which worketh in me powerfully.
2 Timothy 4:7-8
I have struggled hard in the honourable contest, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:
Hebrews 2:7
"Thou hast made him for a little while lower than angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour, and hast placed him over the works of thy hands:
Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus for a little while made lower than angels, by the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour, that, by the grace of God, he might taste of death for every one.
Hebrews 12:4
As yet ye have not resisted unto blood, struggling against sin.
James 1:12
Blessed is the man who patiently supports temptation: for when he is proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to those who love him.
1 Peter 5:4
And when the arch Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that will never fade away.
Revelation 2:10
Fear nothing from the things which thou shalt suffer: lo! the devil will cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have a ten day's tribulation: be thou faithful until death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Revelation 3:11
Behold, I come quickly: hold fast that thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Revelation 4:4
And around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon these thrones I saw twenty-four presbyters seated, clothed in white robes; and they had on their heads golden crowns.
Revelation 4:10
the four and twenty presbyters prostrate themselves before him who is Seated on the throne, and worship him who liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,