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2 Timothy 2:15

James Moffatt - New Testament

Do your utmost to let God see that you at least are a sound workman, with no need to be ashamed of the way you handle the word of the Truth.

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no, God has attested our fitness to be entrusted with the gospel, and so we tell the gospel not to satisfy men but to satisfy the God who tests our hearts.

So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;

Lay this before the brotherhood, and you will be an excellent minister of Christ Jesus, brought up on the truths of the faith and on the lessons of the good doctrine you have already followed.

for it is not the self-praiser with his own recommendations who is accepted, it is the man whom the Lord recommends.

Hence also I am eager to satisfy him, whether in the body or away from it;

I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

Then, beloved, as you are expecting this, be eager to be found by him unspotted and unblemished in serene assurance.

Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.

Yes, and I will see to it that even when I am gone, you will keep this constantly in mind.

You also have heard the message of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, and in him you also by your faith have been stamped with the seal of the long-promised holy Spirit

We beseech you, brothers, keep a check upon loafers, encourage the faint-hearted, sustain weak souls, never lose your temper with anyone;

and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant — a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.

he who serves Christ on these lines, is acceptable to God and esteemed by men.

Let us be eager then to enter that Rest, in case anyone falls into the same sort of disobedience.

It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

We do discuss 'wisdom' with those who are mature; only it is not the wisdom of this world or of the dethroned Powers who rule this world,

Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know),

I never shrank from letting you know the entire purpose of God.

So he said to them, "Well then, every scribe who has become a disciple of the Realm of heaven is like a householder who produces what is new and what is old from his stores."

Salute that tried Christian, Apelles. Salute those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.

The Lord said, "Well, where is the trusty, thoughtful steward whom the lord and master will set over his establishment to give out supplies at the proper time?

In many a parable like this he spoke the word to them, so far as they could listen to it;

you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness.

Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.




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