2 Timothy 3:10 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁰ Now you have followed my teaching, my practice, my aims, my faith, my patience, my love, my stedfastness,

³ and inasmuch as I have gone carefully over them all myself from the very beginning, I have decided, O Theophilus, to write them out in order for your excellency,

⁴² They devoted themselves to the instruction given by the apostles and to fellowship, breaking bread and praying together.

²³ When he came and saw the grace of God he rejoiced, and encouraged them all to hold by the Lord with heartfelt purpose

¹⁸ When they came to him, he said, "You know quite well how I lived among you all the time ever since I set foot in Asia,

⁴ How I lived from my youth up among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all that early career of mine, is known to all the Jews.

¹⁷ Brothers, I beg of you to keep your eye on those who stir up dissensions and put hindrances in your way, contrary to the doctrine which you have been taught. Avoid them.

¹⁷ Such was my intention. Now, have I shown myself 'fickle'? When I propose some plan, do I propose it in a worldly way, ready to mean 'no' as well as 'yes'?

⁴ I prove myself at all points a true minister of God, by great endurance, by suffering, by troubles, by calamities, ⁵ by lashes, by imprisonment; mobbed, toiling, sleepless, starving; ⁶ with innocence, insight, patience, kindness, the holy Spirit, unaffected love, ⁷ true words, the power of God; with the weapons of integrity for attack or for defence, ⁸ amid honour and dishonour, amid evil report and good report, an 'impostor' but honest, ⁹ 'unknown' but well-known, dying but here I am alive, chastened but not killed, ¹⁰ grieved but always glad, a 'pauper', but the means of wealth to many, without a penny but possessed of all.

¹⁴ instead of remaining immature, blown from our course and swayed by every passing wind of doctrine, by the adroitness of men who are dexterous in devising error;

²² But you know how he has stood the test, how he has served with me in the gospel, like a son helping his father.

⁵ for our gospel came to you not with mere words but also with power and with the holy Spirit, with ample conviction on our part (you know what we were to you, for your own good),

³ As I asked you when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay where you are at Ephesus and warn certain individuals against teaching novelties

⁶ Lay this before the brotherhood, and you will be an excellent minister of Christ Jesus, brought up on the truths of the faith and on the lessons of the good doctrine you have already followed.

¹² Let no one slight you because you are a youth, but set the believers an example of speech, behaviour, love, faith, and purity. ¹³ Attend to your Scripture-reading, your preaching, and your teaching, till I come.

¹¹ Shun that, O man of God, aim at integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, and suavity;

²² So shun the lusts of youth and aim at integrity, faith, love and peace, in the company of those who invoke the Lord out of a pure heart.

¹⁶ All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for amendment, and for moral discipline, ¹⁷ to make the man of God proficient and equip him for good work of every kind.

³ for the time will come when people will decline to be taught sound doctrine and will accumulate teachers to suit themselves and tickle their own fancies;

⁷ set them an example of good conduct; be sincere and serious in your teaching,

⁹ Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food — that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.

⁵ for this very reason, do you contrive to make it your whole concern to furnish your faith with resolution, resolution with intelligence, ⁶ intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety, ⁷ piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love.

¹¹ Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,

⁹ Anyone who is 'advanced' and will not remain by the doctrine of Christ, does not possess God: he who remains by the doctrine of Christ possesses both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not admit him to the house — do not even greet him,