2 Timothy 2:15-18

A Worker Approved by God

15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, 1 a worker b who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 16 But c avoid d irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, 17 and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are e Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who have swerved from the truth, f saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some.

  1. Cross References
    Philippians 1:20
    As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
  2. Cross References
    Titus 3:9
    But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
  3. 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.
  4. Cross References
    1 Timothy 1:20
    Among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
  5. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 15:12
    Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
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