2 Timothy 2:14-19

New Century Version

A Worker Pleasing to God

¹⁴ Continue teaching these things, warning people in God’s presence not to argue about words. It does not help anyone, and it ruins those who listen. ¹⁵ Make every effort to give yourself to God as the kind of person he will approve. Be a worker who is not ashamed and who uses the true teaching in the right way. ¹⁶ Stay away from foolish, useless talk, because that will lead people further away from God. ¹⁷ Their evil teaching will spread like a sickness inside the body. Hymenaeus and Philetus are like that. ¹⁸ They have left the true teaching, saying that the rising from the dead has already taken place, and so they are destroying the faith of some people. ¹⁹ But God’s strong foundation continues to stand. These words are written on the seal: “The Lord knows those who belong to him,”^[a] and “Everyone who wants to belong to the Lord must stop doing wrong.”