2Tim 2:15 Cross References

2 Timothy 2:15

15: Work hard so God can approve you. Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly explains the word of truth.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

  1. For we speak as messengers who have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He is the one who examines the motives of our hearts.

1 Timothy 4:6

  1. If you explain this to the brothers and sisters, you will be doing your duty as a worthy servant of Christ Jesus, one who is fed by the message of faith and the true teaching you have followed.

2 Peter 1:10

  1. So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Doing this, you will never stumble or fall away.

2 Corinthians 5:9

  1. So our aim is to please him always, whether we are here in this body or away from this body.

2 Corinthians 10:18

  1. When people boast about themselves, it doesn't count for much. But when the Lord commends someone, that's different!

1 Timothy 4:12

  1. Don't let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you teach, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.
  2. Until I get there, focus on reading the Scriptures to the church, encouraging the believers, and teaching them.
  3. Do not neglect the spiritual gift you received through the prophecies spoken to you when the elders of the church laid their hands on you.
  4. Give your complete attention to these matters. Throw yourself into your tasks so that everyone will see your progress.
  5. Keep a close watch on yourself and on your teaching. Stay true to what is right, and God will save you and those who hear you.

2 Corinthians 4:2

  1. We reject all shameful and underhanded methods. We do not try to trick anyone, and we do not distort the word of God. We tell the truth before God, and all who are honest know that.

2 Peter 1:15

  1. So I will work hard to make these things clear to you. I want you to remember them long after I am gone.

Galatians 1:10

  1. Obviously, I'm not trying to be a people pleaser! No, I am trying to please God. If I were still trying to please people, I would not be Christ's servant.

2 Peter 3:14

  1. And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to live a pure and blameless life. And be at peace with God.

2 Corinthians 3:6

  1. He is the one who has enabled us to represent his new covenant. This is a covenant, not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old way ends in death; in the new way, the Holy Spirit gives life.

Hebrews 5:11

  1. There is so much more we would like to say about this. But you don't seem to listen, so it's hard to make you understand.
  2. You have been Christians a long time now, and you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things a beginner must learn about the Scriptures. You are like babies who drink only milk and cannot eat solid food.
  3. And a person who is living on milk isn't very far along in the Christian life and doesn't know much about doing what is right.
  4. Solid food is for those who are mature, who have trained themselves to recognize the difference between right and wrong and then do what is right.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

  1. Brothers and sisters, we urge you to warn those who are lazy. Encourage those who are timid. Take tender care of those who are weak. Be patient with everyone.

James 1:18

  1. In his goodness he chose to make us his own children by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation, became his choice possession.

Romans 16:10

  1. Give my greetings to Apelles, a good man whom Christ approves. And give my best regards to the members of the household of Aristobulus.

1 Corinthians 2:6

  1. Yet when I am among mature Christians, I do speak with words of wisdom, but not the kind of wisdom that belongs to this world, and not the kind that appeals to the rulers of this world, who are being brought to nothing.

John 21:15

  1. After breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?Yes, Lord," Peter replied, "you know I love you.Then feed my lambs," Jesus told him.
  2. Jesus repeated the question: "Simon son of John, do you love me?Yes, Lord," Peter said, "you know I love you.Then take care of my sheep," Jesus said.
  3. Once more he asked him, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved that Jesus asked the question a third time. He said, "Lord, you know everything. You know I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.

Ephesians 1:13

  1. And now you also have heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago.

Acts 20:27

  1. for I didn't shrink from declaring all that God wants for you.

Hebrews 4:11

  1. Let us do our best to enter that place of rest. For anyone who disobeys God, as the people of Israel did, will fall.

Acts 2:22

  1. "People of Israel, listen! God publicly endorsed Jesus of Nazareth by doing wonderful miracles, wonders, and signs through him, as you well know.

Romans 14:18

  1. If you serve Christ with this attitude, you will please God. And other people will approve of you, too.

1 Corinthians 3:1

  1. Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn't talk to you as I would to mature Christians. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in the Christian life.
  2. I had to feed you with milk and not with solid food, because you couldn't handle anything stronger. And you still aren't ready,

Luke 12:42

  1. And the Lord replied, "I'm talking to any faithful, sensible servant to whom the master gives the responsibility of managing his household and feeding his family.

Matthew 13:52

  1. Then he added, "Every teacher of religious law who has become a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a person who brings out of the storehouse the new teachings as well as the old."

2 Corinthians 6:3

  1. We try to live in such a way that no one will be hindered from finding the Lord by the way we act, and so no one can find fault with our ministry.
  2. In everything we do we try to show that we are true ministers of God. We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind.

Mark 4:33

  1. He used many such stories and illustrations to teach the people as much as they were able to understand.
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