2 Timothy 2:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

if we are faithless, he remains faithful— he cannot deny himself.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

if we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

If we are faithless [do not believe and are untrue to Him], He remains true (faithful to His Word and His righteous character), for He cannot deny Himself.

American Standard Version (1901)

if we are faithless, he abideth faithful; for he cannot deny himself.

Common English Bible

If we are disloyal, he stays faithful” because he can’t be anything else than what he is.

Catholic Public Domain Version

If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful: he is not able to deny himself.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

If we believe not, he continueth faithful, he can not deny himself.

2 Timothy 2:13 Cross References

Isaiah 25:1

O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.

Numbers 23:19

God is not a human being, that he should lie, or a mortal, that he should change his mind. Has he promised, and will he not do it? Has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Romans 3:3

What if some were unfaithful? Will their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?

Romans 9:6

It is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all those descended from Israel are Israelites,

1 Corinthians 1:9

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the partnership of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

1 Thessalonians 5:24

The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do this.

2 Thessalonians 3:3

But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.

Titus 1:2

in the hope of eternal life that God, who never lies, promised before the ages began—

Hebrews 6:18

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us.