2 Timothy 2:15 Cross References - MLV

¹⁵ Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed worker, cutting-straight the word of truth.

⁵² Now he said to them, Because of this, every scribe who has been made a disciple to the kingdom of the heavens is similar to a man who is a householder, who casts forth out of his treasure, new and old things.

³³ And he was speaking the word to them with many such parables, as they were able to hear it.

⁴² But the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and prudent steward, whom his lord will be designating over his bondservants, to give them their food-allowance in season?

¹⁵ Therefore when they had a meal, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, Son of Jonah, do you ^{F} love me more-than these things?
He says to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.
He says to him, Feed my lambs.
¹⁶ He says to him again a second-time, Simon, Son of Jonah, do you ^{F} love me?
He says to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.
He says to him, Shepherd my sheep.
¹⁷ He says to him the third-time, Simon, Son of Jonah, Do you ^{F} love me?
Peter was sorrowful because he said to him the third-time, Do you ^{F} love me like a friend? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you like a friend.
Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

²² Men, Israelites! Hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man from God, having been shown to you by miracles and wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst, just-as you yourselves also know;

²⁷ For I did not retreat back from proclaiming to you the whole plan of God.

¹⁸ For the one who is serving Christ in these things is well pleasing to God and approved by men.

¹⁰ Greet Apelles, the approved, in Christ. Greet those who are from the household of Aristobulus.

⁶ Now we are speaking wisdom among the mature ones; yet a wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are being done-away-with;

¹ And brethren, I was not able to speak to you as to spiritual people, but as to fleshly ones, as to infants in Christ. ² I gave you milk to drink and not food, for you were not yet able to eat it. But still you are not able even now,

⁶ who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not from the writing, but from the Spirit; for the writing kills, but the Spirit gives-life.

² But we ourselves have scoffed at the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in God’s sight.

⁹ Hence we also make it our aim to be well pleasing to him, whether at home, or away from home.

³ giving no one a stumbling block in anything, in order that the service from us might not be blamed. ⁴ But we are commending ourselves in everything, as servants of God: in much endurance, in afflictions, in calamities, in distresses,

¹⁸ For he who commends himself, that man is not approved after being tested, but whom the Lord is commending.

¹⁰ For am I now persuading men or God? Or am I seeking to please men? For if I was still pleasing men, I myself would not be a bondservant of Christ.

¹³ in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the good-news of your salvation, in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

⁴ But just-as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, so we are speaking; not as pleasing men, but it is God who tests our hearts.

¹⁴ But brethren, we encourage you : admonish the disorderly, console the fainthearted, hold up the weak, have patience toward all.

⁶ If you suggest these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of the faith and of the good teaching in which you have followed closely.

¹² Let no one despise your youth, but become an example of the believing ones : in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. ¹³ Until I come, take-heed to the public-reading, to the encouragement, to the teaching. ¹⁴ Do not neglect the gift which is in you, which was given to you through prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. ¹⁵ Meditate on these things; be diligent in them; in order that your progress may be apparent to all. ¹⁶ Take-heed to yourself and to the teaching. Abide in these things; for while practicing this, you will be saving both yourself and those who hear you.

¹¹ Therefore let us be diligent to enter into that rest, in order that no one should fall into the same example of disobedience.

¹¹ Concerning whom, much for us to say in speech (also hard to translate), since you have become sluggish in hearing. ¹² For you also ought to be teachers by now because of the time, but you again have need of one to teach you what are the fundamental principles of the beginning oracles of God, and have become ones having need of milk and not of solid nourishment. ¹³ For everyone who partakes of milk is inexperienced of the word of righteousness; for he is an infant. ¹⁴ But solid nourishment is for the mature ones, from those who, through their habit, have had their senses exercised to the discerning of both good and evil.

¹⁸ Having willed it, he gave-birth to us with the word of truth, that we might be a certain first-fruit of his created things.

¹⁰ Hence brethren, be more diligent to make your calling and choice steadfast; for, you may never trip someday while practicing these things;

¹⁵ But I will also be diligent, each-time, to have you in remembrance of these things, to practice them after my exodus.

¹⁴ Hence, beloved, while expecting these things, be diligent that you may be found in peace, unstained and unblemished in his sight.