13 If (A)we believe not, yet abideth he faithful: he cannot deny himself.

14 Of these things put them in remembrance, and [a]protest before the Lord, that they strive not about words, which is to no profit, but to the perverting of the hearers.

15 [b]Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, dividing the word of truth [c]aright.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 2:14 Call God to witness, or as a Judge: as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and Paul himself did, Acts 20.
  2. 2 Timothy 2:15 The fifth admonition: A minister must not be an idle disputer, but a faithful steward in dividing aright the word of truth, insomuch that he must stop the mouths of other vain babblers.
  3. 2 Timothy 2:15 By adding nothing to it, neither overslipping anything, neither mangling it, nor renting it in sunder, nor wresting of it: but marking diligently what his hearers are able to hear, and what is fit to edifying.

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