2 Timothy 1:12-14

Guard the Deposit Entrusted to You

¹² _e which is why I suffer as I do. But _f I am not ashamed, for _g I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until _h that Day _i what has been entrusted to me. ₁ ¹³ _j Follow _k the pattern of _l the sound ₂ words _m that you have heard from me, in _n the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ By the Holy Spirit _o who dwells within us, guard _i the good deposit entrusted to you.

1. Cross References
   2 Timothy 2:9
   For which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!
   
2. Cross References
   2 Timothy 1:8
   Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
   
3. Cross References
   Psalms 10:14
   But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.
   1 Peter 4:19
   Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
   
4. Cross References
   2 Timothy 1:18
   May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that Day! - and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus.
   2 Timothy 4:8
   Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
   1 Corinthians 3:13
   Each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Timothy 6:20
   O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge.
   
6. Cross References
   2 Timothy 3:14
   But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it
   Titus 1:9
   He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.
   Revelation 3:3
   Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
   
7. Cross References
   Romans 2:20
   An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth -
   Romans 6:17
   But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed.
   
8. Cross References
   1 Timothy 1:10
   The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine.
   
9. Cross References
   2 Timothy 2:2
   And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
   
10. Cross References
    1 Timothy 1:14
    And the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
    
11. Cross References
    Romans 8:9
    You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
    
12. Cross References
    2 Timothy 1:12
    Which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.