2 Timothy 2

Wycliffe Bible

2 Therefore thou, my son, be comforted in grace that is in Christ Jesus.

² And what things thou hast heard of me by many witnesses, betake thou these to faithful men, which shall be able also to teach other men.

³ Travail thou as a good knight of Christ Jesus. [Travail thou as a good knight of Jesus Christ.]

⁴ No man holding knighthood to God, wrappeth himself [enwrappeth himself] with worldly needs, that he please to him, to whom he hath proved himself.

⁵ For he that fighteth in a battle [For why and he that striveth in a battle], shall not be crowned, but he fight lawfully.

⁶ It behooveth an earth-tiller to receive first of the fruits.

⁷ Understand thou what things I say [Understand what things I say]. For the Lord shall give to thee understanding in all things.

⁸ Be thou mindful that the Lord Jesus Christ of the seed of David hath risen again from death [from dead], after my gospel,

⁹ in which I travail unto bonds, as working evil [as evil working], but the word of God is not bound.

¹⁰ Therefore I suffer all things [Therefore I sustain all things] for the chosen, that also they get the health, that is in Christ Jesus, with heavenly glory.

¹¹ A true word [is this that I say], that if we be dead together [to the world], also we shall live together [in bliss];

¹² if we suffer, [and] we shall reign together [with Christ]; if we deny [him], [and] he shall deny us;

¹³ if we believe not, he dwelleth faithful, he may not deny himself.

¹⁴ Teach thou these things [Forsooth these things I admonish], witnessing before God. Do not thou strive in words; for to nothing it is profitable, but to the subverting of men that hear.

¹⁵ Busily keep [Busily care, or keep,] to give thyself an approved, praiseable workman to God, without shame, rightly treating the word of truth.

¹⁶ But eschew thou unholy and vain speeches, for why those profit much to unfaithfulness, [Forsooth shun thou unholy and vain speeches, soothly they profit much to unpiety,]

¹⁷ and the word of them creepeth as a canker. Of whom Philetus is, and Hymenaeus,

¹⁸ which felled down [the which fell down] from the truth, saying that the rising again is now done, and they subverted the faith of some men [and turned upside-down the faith of some men].

¹⁹ But the firm foundament of God standeth, having this mark [having this mark, either signet], The Lord knoweth which be his, and, Each man that nameth the name of the Lord, departeth from wickedness [depart from wickedness].

²⁰ But in a great house be not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of tree and of earth; and so some be into honour, and some into despite.

²¹ Therefore, if any man cleanseth himself from these [Therefore if any man shall cleanse himself from these], he shall be a vessel hallowed into honour, and profitable to the Lord, ready to all good work [ready into all good work].

²² And flee thou [the] desires of youth, but follow thou rightwiseness, faith, charity, peace, with them that inwardly call the Lord [that in-call the Lord] of a clean heart.

²³ And eschew thou foolish questions, and without knowing [Forsooth shun thou foolish questions, and without discipline], witting that those gender chidings.

²⁴ But it behooveth the servant of the Lord to chide not [to not chide]; but to be mild to all men, able to teach, patient,

²⁵ with temperance reproving them that against-stand the truth, that sometime God give to them repenting, that they know the truth [that sometime God give them penance to know the truth],

²⁶ and that they rise again from the snares of the devil, of whom they be held prisoners at his will [of whom they be holden captive at his will].