2 Timothy 3:10 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹⁰ But you have closely followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,

³ For that reason, Theophilus, and because I have investigated it all carefully from the beginning, I have determined to write a connected account of it for Your Excellency,

⁴² And they devoted themselves to the teaching and the society of the apostles, the breaking of bread, and prayer.

²³ When he reached there and saw the favor God had shown them, he was delighted, and encouraged them all to be resolute and steadfast in their devotion to the Lord,

¹⁸ When they came, he said to them, "You know well enough how I lived among you all the time from the first day I set foot in Asia,

⁴ The way I lived from my youth up, spending my early life among my own nation and at Jerusalem, is well known to all Jews,

¹⁷ I beg you, brothers, to be on the watch for those who introduce divisions and difficulties, in opposition to the instruction that you were given, and to avoid them.

¹⁷ Was it vacillating of me to want to do that? Do I make my plans like a worldly man, ready to say "Yes" and "No" in the same breath?

⁴ On the contrary, as a servant of God I try in every way to commend myself to them, through my great endurance in troubles, difficulties, hardships, ⁵ beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger, ⁶ through my purity of life, my knowledge, my patience, my kindness, my holiness of spirit, my genuine love, ⁷ the truth of my teaching, and the power of God; with the weapons of uprightness for the right hand and the left, ⁸ in honor or dishonor, in praise or blame; considered an imposter, when I am true, ⁹ obscure, when I am well known, at the point of death, yet here I am alive, punished, but not dead yet, ¹⁰ pained, when I am always glad, poor, when I make many others rich, penniless, when really I own everything.

¹⁴ We must not be babies any longer, blown about and swung around by every wind of doctrine through the trickery of men with their ingenuity in inventing error.

²² But you know his character, and how like a son helping his father he has worked like a slave with me in preaching the good news.

⁵ for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction—you know the kind of life we lived among you for your good.

³ As I asked you to do when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus in order to warn certain people there not to teach strange views

⁶ If you point this out to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, living on the principles of the faith and the excellent teaching you have had.

¹² Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set those who believe an example in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity. ¹³ Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, preaching, and teaching.

¹¹ But you, man of God, must fly from these things. Strive for uprightness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

²² Fly from the cravings of youth, and go in pursuit of uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.

¹⁶ All Scripture is divinely inspired, and useful in teaching, in reproof, in correcting faults, and in training in uprightness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God will be adequate, and equipped for any good work.

³ For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,

⁷ In every way set them an example of good conduct yourself. Teach with sincerity and seriousness,

⁹ You must not be carried away with strange varieties of teaching. The true way to steadfastness of heart is through God's mercy, not through scruples about food, which have never done their adherents any good.

⁵ For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, ⁶ knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety, ⁷ piety with a spirit of brotherhood, and the spirit of brotherhood with love.

¹¹ If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what holy and pious lives you ought to lead,

⁹ Anyone who goes too far and does not keep to the teaching of Christ has not God. It is the man who holds to the teaching who has both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If anyone comes to you without bringing this teaching, do not let him come into the house or bid him good morning.