Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
2 Timothy 1:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Hold the pattern of sound words which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Hold fast and follow the pattern of wholesome and sound teaching which you have heard from me, in [all] the faith and love which are [for us] in Christ Jesus. American Standard Version (1901) Hold the pattern of sound words which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. Common English Bible Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching that you heard from me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. Catholic Public Domain Version Hold to the kind of sound words that you have heard from me in the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hold the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me in faith, and in the love which is in Christ Jesus. |
Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.
My son, let not them depart from thine eyes; Keep sound wisdom and discretion;
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life.
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;
But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;
The things which ye both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have toward all the saints,
for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
and the grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
That good thing which was committed unto thee guard through the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
But abide thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;
holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able both to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.
sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.
let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:
but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.
Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.
I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.
Remember therefore how thou hast received and didst hear; and keep it, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.