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2 Timothy 2:15
Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.
2 Timothy 2:15 · Bible in Basic English
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2 Timothy 2:15 in other translations
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed workman who accurately handles the word of truth.
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
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In context
12 If we go on to the end, then we will be ruling with him: if we say we have no knowledge of him, then he will say he has no knowledge of us:
13 If we are without faith, still he keeps faith, for he will never be untrue to himself.
14 Put these things before them, giving them orders in the name of the Lord to keep themselves from fighting about words, which is of no profit, only causing error in their hearers.
15 Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.
16 But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,
17 And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;
18 Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.
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