2 Timothy 2:1-18 ▼

1 Thou therfore my sonne be stronge in the grace that is in Christ Iesu.

2 And what thynges thou hast hearde of me many bearynge witnes the same diliver to faythfull men which are apte to teache other

3 Thou therfore suffre affliccion as a good soudier of Iesu Christ.

4 No man that warreth entanglith him silfe with worldely busynes and that be cause he wolde please him that hath chosen him to be a soudier.

5 And though a man strive for a mastery yet ys he not crouned except he strive laufully.

6 The husbandma that laboreth must fyrst receave of the frutes.

7 Consyder what I saye. The lorde geve the vnderstondynge in all thynges.

8 Remember that Iesus Christ beynge of he sede of David rose agayne fro deth accordynge to my gospell

9 wherin I suffre trouble as an evyll doar even vnto bondes. But the worde of god was not bounde.

10 Herefore I suffre all thinges for ye electes sakes that they myght also obtayne that saluacion which is i n Christ Iesu with eternall glory.

11 It is a true sayinge if we be deed wt him we also shall live with him.

12 Yf we be pacient we shall also raigne wt him. If we denye him he also shall denye vs.

13 Yf we beleve not yet abideth he faithfull. He cannot denye him silfe.

14 Of these thynges put them in remembraunce and testifie before the lorde that they stryve not about wordes which is to no proffet but to pervert the hearers.

15 Study to shewe thy silfe laudable vnto god a workman yt nedeth not to be a shamed dividynge the worde of trueth iustly.

16 Vngostly and vayne voyces passe over. For they shall encreace vnto greater vngodlynes

17 and their wordes shall fret even as doeth a cancre: of whose nombre ys Hymeneos and Philetos

18 which as concernynge the trueth have erred sayinge that the resurreccion is past all redy and do destroye the fayth of divers persones.