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2 Timothy 2:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You have often heard me teach. Now I want you to tell these same things to followers who can be trusted to tell others.

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Ezra had spent his entire life studying and obeying the Law of the LORD and teaching it to others.

Ezra, use the wisdom God has given you and choose officials and leaders to govern the people of Western Province. These leaders should know God's laws and have them taught to anyone who doesn't know them.

I put my brother Hanani in charge of Jerusalem, along with Hananiah, the commander of the fortress, because Hananiah could be trusted, and he respected God more than most people did.

I will find trustworthy people to serve as my advisers, and only an honest person will serve as an official.

Whoever delivers your message can make things better or worse for you.

Their dreams and my truth are as different as straw and wheat. But when prophets speak for me, they must say only what I have told them.

Afterwards the wall must be repaired with new stones and fresh plaster.

You priests should be eager to spread knowledge, and everyone should come to you for instruction, because you speak for me, the LORD All-Powerful.

But my servant Moses is the leader of my people.

So he told them, “Every student of the Scriptures who becomes a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like someone who brings out new and old treasures from the storeroom.”

But I have warned you beforehand.

The Lord answered: Who are faithful and wise servants? Who are the ones the master will put in charge of giving the other servants their food supplies at the proper time?

And since our first duty is to be faithful to the one we work for,

I am grateful that God always makes it possible for Christ to lead us to victory. God also helps us spread the knowledge about Christ everywhere, and this knowledge is like the smell of perfume.

We don't have the right to claim that we have done anything on our own. God gives us what it takes to do all that we do.

from our good friend Epaphras. He works together with us for Christ and is a faithful worker for you.

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord. He has given me the strength for my work because he knew that he could trust me.

Timothy, my son, the instructions I am giving you are based on what some prophets once said about you. If you follow these instructions, you will fight like a good soldier.

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

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

Don't be too quick to accept people into the service of the Lord by placing your hands on them. Don't sin because others do, but stay close to God.

Fight a good fight for the faith and claim eternal life. God offered it to you when you clearly told about your faith, while so many people listened.

Timothy, you know what I teach and how I live. You know what I want to do and what I believe. You have seen how patient and loving I am, and how in the past I put up with

Keep on being faithful to what you were taught and to what you believed. After all, you know who taught you these things.

He had to be one of us, so that he could serve God as our merciful and faithful high priest and sacrifice himself for the forgiveness of our sins.

I have chosen someone else to be my priest, someone who will be faithful and obey me. I will always let his family serve as priests and help my chosen king.




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