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2 Timothy 1:6

Contemporary English Version 1995

So I ask you to make full use of the gift God gave you when I placed my hands on you. Use it well.

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Use the gift you were given when the prophets spoke and the group of church leaders blessed you by placing their hands on you.

My dear friends, this is the second letter I have written to encourage you to do some honest thinking. I don't want you to forget

to preach God's message. Do it willingly, even if it isn't the popular thing to do. You must correct people and point out their sins. But also cheer them up, and when you instruct them, always be patient.

You are holding firmly to the truth you were given. But I am still going to remind you of these things.

Then Paul placed his hands on them. The Holy Spirit was given to them, and they spoke unknown languages and prophesied.

Then Moses brought together these workers who were eager to work,

And the women who knew how to make cloth from goat hair were glad to do so.

Don't let anyone forget these things. And with God as your witness, you must warn them not to argue about words. These arguments don't help anyone. In fact, they ruin everyone who listens to them.

If you teach these things to other followers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus. You will show you have grown up on the teachings about our faith and on the good instructions you have obeyed.

But before leaving, he called in ten servants and gave each of them some money. He told them, “Use this to earn more money until I get back.”

Meet me in court! State your case and prove that you are right.

Don't forget what happened to those people the Lord rescued from Egypt. Some of them did not have faith, and he later destroyed them.

And we shouldn't need to keep teaching about baptisms or about the laying on of hands or about people being raised from death and the future judgment.

These men were brought to the apostles. Then the apostles prayed and placed their hands on the men to show they had been chosen to do this work.




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