2 Timothy 4:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised At my first defence, no one stood by me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be counted against them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition At my first trial no one acted in my defense [as my advocate] or took my part or [even] stood with me, but all forsook me. May it not be charged against them! American Standard Version (1901) At my first defence no one took my part, but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their account. Common English Bible No one took my side at my first court hearing. Everyone deserted me. I hope that God doesn’t hold it against them! Catholic Public Domain Version At my first defense, no one stood by me, but everyone abandoned me. May it not be counted against them! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version At my first answer no man stood with me, but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their charge. |
Whenever they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you should defend yourselves or what you should say.
Indeed, an hour is coming, and has come, when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
I answered them that it is not the Roman custom to give someone up before the accused faces the accusers and has an opportunity for a defence against the charges.
He knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, ‘Lord, do not hold this sin against them! ’ And after saying this, he fell asleep.
is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not irritable, and does not keep a record of wrongs.
For consider how much diligence this very thing #– #this grieving as God wills #– #has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.
the others proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, thinking that they will cause me trouble in my imprisonment.
Indeed, it is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I have you in my heart, and you are all partners with me in grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel.
You know that all those in the province of Asia have deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
because Demas has deserted me, since he loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
but in your hearts regard Christ the Lord as holy, ready at any time to give a defence to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.