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| 2:1 |
Thou therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
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| 2:2 |
And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
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| 2:3 |
Suffer hardship with [me], as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
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| 2:4 |
No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of [this] life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
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| 2:5 |
And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully.
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| 2:6 |
The husbandmen that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.
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| 2:7 |
Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things.
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| 2:8 |
Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my gospel:
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| 2:9 |
wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.
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| 2:10 |
Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
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| 2:11 |
Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him:
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| 2:12 |
if we endure, we shall also reign with him: if we shall deny him, he also will deny us:
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| 2:13 |
if we are faithless, he abideth faithful; for he cannot deny himself.
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| 2:14 |
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.
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| 2:15 |
Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.
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| 2:16 |
But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,
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| 2:17 |
and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: or whom is Hymenaeus an Philetus;
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| 2:18 |
men who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some.
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| 2:19 |
Howbeit the firm foundation of God standeth, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his: and, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.
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| 2:20 |
Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some unto honor, and some unto dishonor.
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| 2:21 |
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master's use, prepared unto every good work.
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| 2:22 |
But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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| 2:23 |
But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes.
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| 2:24 |
And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,
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| 2:25 |
in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,
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| 2:26 |
and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.
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