2 Timothy 2:15

Tree of Life Version

Make every effort to present yourself before God as tried and true, as an unashamed worker cutting a straight path with the word of truth.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:4

But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we declare it—not pleasing men but rather God, who examines our hearts.

2 Peter 1:10

Therefore, brothers and sisters, make all the more effort to make your calling and election certain—for if you keep doing these things, you will never stumble.

1 Timothy 4:6

In pointing out these things to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Messiah Yeshua, nourished in the words of the faith and the sound teaching that you have been following.

2 Corinthians 10:18

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

2 Corinthians 5:9

So whether at home or absent, we make it our aim to be pleasing to Him.

2 Corinthians 4:2

Instead, we renounced the hidden shameful ways—not walking in deception or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by the open proclamation of the truth.

2 Peter 3:14

Therefore, loved ones, while you are looking for these things, make every effort to be found in shalom, spotless and blameless before Him.

Galatians 1:10

Am I now trying to win people’s approval, or God’s? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Messiah.

2 Peter 1:15

And I will make every effort for you to always remember these things even after my departure.

Ephesians 1:13

After you heard the message of truth—the Good News of your salvation—and when you put your trust in Him, you were sealed with the promised Ruach ha-Kodesh.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

We urge you, brothers and sisters, correct the unruly, comfort the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He also made us competent as servants of a new covenant—not of the letter, but of the Ruach. For the letter kills, but the Ruach gives life.

Romans 14:18

For the one who serves Messiah in this manner is pleasing to God and approved by men.

Hebrews 4:11

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall through the same pattern of disobedience.

James 1:18

By His will, He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all He created.

1 Corinthians 2:6

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

Acts 2:22

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Yeshua ha-Natzrati—a Man authenticated to you by God with mighty deeds and wonders and signs God performed through Him in your midst, as you yourselves know—

Acts 20:27

For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.

Matthew 13:52

Then He said to them, “Therefore every Torah scholar discipled for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure both new things and old.”

Romans 16:10

Greet Apelles, who is approved in Messiah. Greet those from the household of Aristobulus.

Luke 12:42

And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their food portion at the proper time?

Mark 4:33

With many such parables He used to tell them the word, as much as they were able to hear.

Romans 6:13

And do not keep yielding your body parts to sin as tools of wickedness; but yield yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your body parts as tools of righteousness to God.

James 1:12

Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love Him.