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2 Timothy 2:15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Be diligent to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth.

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Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted  with the gospel,  so we speak, not to please people, but rather God,  who examines our hearts.


Therefore, brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election,  because if you do these things you will never stumble.


If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith  and the good teaching that you have followed.


For it is not the one commending himself who is approved, but the one the Lord commends.


Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing  to him.


Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful things, not acting  deceitfully or distorting the word of God,  but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by an open display of the truth.


Therefore, dear friends, while you wait for these things, make every effort to be found without spot or blemish in his sight, at peace.


For am I now trying to persuade people,  or God?  Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.


And I will also make every effort so that you are able to recall these things at any time after my departure.


In him you also were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit  when you heard the word of truth,  the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed.


And we exhort you, brothers and sisters:  warn those who are idle,  comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient  with everyone.


He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant,  not of the letter,  but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.


Whoever serves Christ  in this way is acceptable to God and receives human approval.


Let us, then, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same pattern of disobedience.


By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.


We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature,  but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers  of this age, who are coming to nothing.


‘Fellow Israelites, listen to these words: This Jesus of Nazareth was a man attested to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through him, just as you yourselves know.


because I did not avoid declaring to you the whole plan of God.


‘Therefore,’ he said to them, ‘every teacher of the law   who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom treasures new and old.’


Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.


The Lord said, ‘Who then is the faithful and sensible manager   his master will put in charge of his household servants to give them their allotted food   at the proper time?


He was speaking the word  to them with many parables  like these, as they were able to understand.


And do not offer any parts  of it to sin  as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God,  and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.


Blessed is the one who endures trials, because when he has stood the test he will receive the crown  of life that God  has promised to those who love him.





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