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2TIM 2:15–2:26 ©

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Being God’s honourable slave

2:15 Being God’s honourable slave

15Work hard so that God will see you as someone he approves of—not ashamed of the good message but straight-talking the truth. 16Avoid chatter about unimportant or crude topics because it will eventually led to godlessness. 17Those kinds of talk are like rot that spreads, as happened when Hymenaeus and Philetus 18deviated from the truth by claiming that the resurrection has already happened and have drawn some away from the faith. 19However God’s solid foundation has stood with this inscription on it: ‘The master knew his own ones,’[ref] and ‘Let everyone who claims to follow the master avoid disobedience.’

20An expensive home doesn’t just have gold and silver bowls, but there are wooden and pottery bowls as well. Some will contain valuable things, but others contain dishonourable things that we prefer not to display. 21So those people who rid themselves of dishonourable thoughts and actions will become a container for honourable things, being reserved to do the special work that the master has prepared for them. 22And run far from youthful lusts—chase instead after obedience, faith, love, and peace like all the others who follow the master with a pure heart. 23Refuse to enter foolish and uneducated debates because they’ll just end in an argument. 24It’s not fitting one of the master’s slaves to be argumentative, but rather to be polite to everyone and to be teaching the truth yet be tolerant of other people’s bad behaviour. 25We should politely point out the wrongs of those opposing us and perhaps God might bring them to repentance and the knowledge of the truth. 26After being caught in the devil’s trap just as he wanted, maybe they’ll escape and come to their senses.


2:19: Num 16:5.

2TIM 2:15–2:26 ©

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