2 Timothy 2:23
Greek Text— 2 Timothy 2:23But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
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but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,
not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.
but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,
from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,
desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,
But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.
For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.
He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”
Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.
Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.
and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—
I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,
Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,
Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”
holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.