2 Timothy 2:15 Cross References - WPNT

¹⁵ Make every effort to render yourself approved by God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, handling the Word of the Truth correctly.

⁵² So He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been discipled into the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a householder, who brings out of his reservoir things new and old.”

³³ It was with many such parables that He was speaking the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

⁴² So the Lord said: “Who then is the faithful and prudent steward whom his master will place over his household to give them the food allowance at the right time?

¹⁵ So, when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He says to Him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I’m fond of you.” He says to him, “Feed my lambs.” ¹⁶ He says to him again, a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He says to Him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I’m fond of you.” He says to him, “Shepherd my sheep.” ¹⁷ The third time He says to him, “Simon, son of Jonah, are you fond of me?” Peter was grieved in that the third time He said to him, “Are you fond of me?” and said to Him: “Lord, you know all things. You know that I’m fond of you!” Jesus says to him: “Feed my sheep.

²² “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Natsorean, a man from God attested to you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in your midst, as you yourselves well know,

²⁷ because I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

¹⁸ For whoever serves the Christ in these things is satisfying to God and approved by men.

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

⁶ However, we do speak wisdom among the mature, albeit not the wisdom of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are being set aside;

¹ Brothers, I was not able to address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ. ² I gave you milk and not solid food, because you were not ready yet. Alas, you are still not ready,

⁶ indeed, He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant; not of letter but of Spirit, because the letter kills, while the Spirit gives life.

² Rather, we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in deception nor falsifying the Word of God, but by the open proclamation of the Truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience, in the sight of God.

⁹ Yes, that is why we make it our aim (whether at home or away from it) to be well pleasing to Him.

³ (We give no occasion for offense in anything, that the ministry not be faulted; ⁴ rather we commend ourselves as God’s servants in every way with great endurance—in afflictions, in hardships, in distress,

¹⁸ Because it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

¹⁰ Am I just now appealing to men, or to God? Or am I trying to please men? You see, if I were still pleasing men I would not be a slave of Christ.

¹³ about whom, to be sure, we had heard the true Word —the Gospel of your salvation; by whom, since you also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

⁴ but we speak precisely as those who have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, not so as to please men, but to please the God who evaluates our hearts.

¹⁴ Now we exhort you, brothers: admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, be supportive of the weak, be patient toward all.

⁶ If you instruct the brothers in these things you will be a good servant of Jesus Christ, brought up in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have faithfully followed.

¹² Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. ¹³ Until I come give attention to public reading [of Scripture], to exhortation, to teaching. ¹⁴ Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the body of elders. ¹⁵ Cultivate these things; give yourself wholly to them, so that your progress may be evident to all. ¹⁶ Take pains with yourself and the doctrine; persevere in those things, because by doing so you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

¹¹ Therefore, let us take pains to enter into that rest so that no one may fall through the same pattern of disobedience.

¹¹ concerning whom we have much to say, but it is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing. ¹² Really, because although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary principles of God’s oracles all over again; you have come to the point of needing milk, not solid food! ¹³ Surely; whoever lives on milk is an infant, and therefore unskilled in the word of righteousness. ¹⁴ On the other hand, solid food is for the mature, those who by habitual use have trained their senses to distinguish good from bad.

¹⁸ Having willed it, He brought us forth by a word of truth, so that we might be a sort of first fruits of His products.

¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, you should be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble.

¹⁵ Moreover I will take pains to provide a reminder of these things for you to have, as needed, after my exit.

¹⁴ Therefore, dear ones, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, faultless and blameless;