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2 Timothy 2:14

James Moffatt - New Testament

Remind men of this: adjure them before the Lord not to bandy arguments — no good comes out of that, it only means the undoing of your audience.

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Shut your mind against foolish, popular controversy; be sure that only breeds strife.

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who will judge the living and the dead, in the light of his appearance and his reign,

Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his scruples.

Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food — that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.

In the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels, I adjure you to be unprejudiced in carrying out these orders; be absolutely impartial.

Having learned that some of our number, quite unauthorized by us, have unsettled you with their teaching and upset your souls,

so long as I am in this tent, I deem it proper to stir you up by way of reminder,

In the presence of God who is the Life of all, and of Christ Jesus who testified to the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you

Brothers, we charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun any brother who is loafing, instead of following the rule you got from us.

Avoid all that profane jargon, for it leads people still further into irreligion,

The training of the body is of small service, but religion is of service in all directions; it contains the promise of life both for the present and for the future.

Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

It simply means that certain individuals are unsettling you; they want to distort the gospel of Christ.

and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all good, full of all craft and all cunning, will you never stop diverting the straight paths of the Lord?

What profit will it be if a man gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul? What will a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?

Hence I would remind you to rekindle the divine gift which you received when my hands were laid upon you;

Certain individuals have failed here by turning to empty argument;

and studying myths and interminable genealogies; such studies bear upon speculations rather than on the divine order which belongs to faith.

Finally, brothers, we beg and beseech you in the Lord Jesus to follow our instructions about the way you are to live so as to satisfy God; you are leading that life, but you are to excel in it still further.

Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; they must obey, they must be ready for any good work,




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