2 Timothy · Free Bible Version
2 Timothy 2 Free Bible Version
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1 So then, my son, grow strong in the grace of Christ Jesus.
1 PUES tú, hijo mío, esfuérzate en la gracia que es en Cristo Jesús.
2 Take what you heard me say in front of many witnesses and share it with those who are trustworthy, who then can teach others as well.
2 Y lo que has oído de mí entre muchos testigos, esto encarga á los hombres fieles que serán idóneos para enseñar también á otros.
3 Suffer together with me like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
3 Tú pues, sufre trabajos como fiel soldado de Jesucristo.
4 A soldier on active duty doesn't get caught up in the business of everyday life. He wants to please the one who enlisted him.
4 Ninguno que milita se embaraza en los negocios de la vida; á fin de agradar á aquel que lo tomó por soldado.
5 Similarly athletes who compete in the games don't win a prize if they don't keep to the rules.
5 Y aun también el que lidia, no es coronado si no lidiare legítimamente.
6 The farmer that does all the hard work should be the first to benefit from the crop.
6 El labrador, para recibir los frutos, es menester que trabaje primero.
7 Think about what I'm telling you. The Lord will help you to understand all this.
7 Considera lo que digo; y el Señor te dé entendimiento en todo.
8 Focus your mind on Jesus Christ, a descendant of David, who was raised from the dead. This is my good news,
8 Acuérdate que Jesucristo, [el cual fué] de la simiente de David, resucitó de los muertos conforme á mi evangelio;
9 and I'm suffering imprisonment because of it as if I were a criminal—but the word of God is not imprisoned.
9 En el que sufro trabajo, hasta las prisiones á modo de malhechor; mas la palabra de Dios no está presa.
10 Despite all this I'm willing to keep on going for the sake of God's people so that they may gain the salvation of Christ Jesus that is eternal glory.
10 Por tanto, todo lo sufro por amor de los escogidos, para que ellos también consigan la salud que es en Cristo Jesús con gloria eterna.
11 This is a trustworthy saying: “If we died with him, we will also live with him;
11 Es palabra fiel: Que si somos muertos con él, también viviremos con él:
12 if we keep going, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he will also deny us.
12 Si sufrimos, también reinaremos con él: si negáremos, él también nos negará:
13 If we are not trustworthy, he is still trustworthy, for he cannot be untrue to himself.”
13 Si fuéremos infieles, él permanece fiel: no se puede negar á sí mismo.
14 This is what you should remind people about, telling them before God that they shouldn't have meaningless arguments over words. To do this only harms those who listen.
14 Recuérdales esto, protestando delante del Señor que no contiendan en palabras, [lo cual] para nada aprovecha, [antes] trastorna á los oyentes.
15 Make sure you work hard so you can present yourself to God and gain his approval. Be a worker that doesn't need to be embarrassed, using the word of truth correctly.
15 Procura con diligencia presentarte á Dios aprobado, [como] obrero que no tiene de qué avergonzarse, que traza bien la palabra de verdad.
16 Avoid pointless chatter because people who do this are heading away from God.
16 Mas evita profanas [y] vanas parlerías; porque muy adelante irán en la impiedad.
17 Their teachings are as destructive as gangrene that destroys healthy flesh. Hymenaeus and Philetus are like this.
17 Y la palabra de ellos carcomerá como gangrena: de los cuales es Himeneo y Fileto;
18 They have deviated from the truth by saying that the resurrection has already happened, which has ruined some people's trust in God.
18 Que se han descaminado de la verdad, diciendo que la resurrección es ya hecha, y trastornan la fe de algunos.
19 But God's solid, trustworthy foundation stone stands firm, with this inscription, “The Lord knows those who belong to him,” and “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord should stay away from all that is evil.”
19 Pero el fundamento de Dios está firme, teniendo este sello: Conoce el Señor á los que son suyos; y: Apártese de iniquidad todo aquel que invoca el nombre de Cristo.
20 A stately home doesn't just have cups and bowls made of gold and silver. It also has ones made from wood and clay. Some are made for special use; others for more commonplace functions.
20 Mas en una casa grande, no solamente hay vasos de oro y de plata, sino también de madera y de barro: y asimismo unos para honra, y otros para deshonra.
21 So if you get rid of what is evil, you will become a cup or bowl that is holy and special, useful to the Lord, ready to do all that's good.
21 Así que, si alguno se limpiare de estas cosas, será vaso para honra, santificado, y útil para los usos del Señor, y aparejado para todo buena obra.
22 Run away from anything that fires up the desires of youth. Run after what is right and trustworthy, run after love and peace along with those who are true and pure Christians.
22 Huye también los deseos juveniles; y sigue la justicia, la fe, la caridad, la paz, con los que invocan al Señor de puro corazón.
23 Avoid foolish and childish debates, for you know they only lead to fights.
23 Empero las cuestiones necias y sin sabiduría desecha, sabiendo que engendran contiendas.
24 For the Lord's minister must not fight, but be kind to everyone, able to teach, patient,
24 Que el siervo del Señor no debe ser litigioso, sino manso para con todos, apto para enseñar, sufrido;
25 gently correcting opponents. Perhaps God may help them to come to repent and to understand the truth.
25 Que con mansedumbre corrija á los que se oponen: si quizá Dios les dé que se arrepientan para conocer la verdad,
26 In this way they may come to their senses and escape the devil's trap. For he has captured them and made them do whatever he wants.
26 Y se zafen del lazo del diablo, en que están cautivos á voluntad de él.
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Hymenaeus
A man who shipwrecked his faith; Paul handed him over to Satan to learn not to blaspheme, and he taught that the resurrection had already happened.
Cited in the guide: 1 Timothy 1:20; 2 Timothy 2:17
Philetus
Named with Hymenaeus as one whose teaching spreads like gangrene, claiming the resurrection had already happened.
Cited in the guide: 2 Timothy 2:17
Cross references (26)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; 2 Timothy 1:7; Ephesians 6:10; Philippians 4:13; 1 Corinthians 16:13
- 2 2 Timothy 1:13–14; 1 Timothy 4:6; 1 Timothy 6:12; Malachi 2:7; Titus 1:5–9
- 3 Hebrews 12:2–3; James 1:12; 2 Timothy 4:5; 2 Timothy 1:8; Ephesians 6:11–18
- 4 1 Thessalonians 2:4; Luke 8:14; 2 Peter 2:20; 1 Corinthians 7:22–23; 1 Corinthians 9:25–26
- 5 1 Corinthians 9:24–27; Revelation 3:11; 2 Timothy 4:7–8; James 1:12; Colossians 1:29
- 6 Hebrews 10:36; 1 Corinthians 9:7–11; 1 Corinthians 3:6–9; John 4:35–38; Luke 10:2
- 7 James 1:5; 1 John 5:20; Genesis 41:38–39; Luke 24:45; Ephesians 1:17–18
- 8 Acts 2:24; Romans 2:16; 2 Thessalonians 2:14; 1 Corinthians 15:11–20; Matthew 1:1
- 9 Acts 28:31; Philippians 1:7; 2 Timothy 1:8; Ephesians 6:19–20; Colossians 4:3
- 10 1 Peter 5:10; Colossians 1:24; 2 Corinthians 1:6; 2 Timothy 2:3; Colossians 1:27
- 11 Romans 6:8; Colossians 3:3–4; Romans 6:5; 1 Timothy 1:15; 2 Corinthians 4:10
- 12 Romans 8:17; Matthew 10:33; Revelation 20:4; Luke 12:9; Revelation 20:6
- 13 Numbers 23:19; Romans 3:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:24; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; Titus 1:2
- 14 Titus 3:9–11; 2 Timothy 2:23; 2 Timothy 4:1; Romans 14:1; 1 Timothy 5:21
- 15 1 Thessalonians 2:4; 2 Peter 1:10; 1 Timothy 4:6; 2 Corinthians 10:18; 2 Corinthians 5:9
- 16 Titus 3:9; 1 Timothy 6:20; 2 Timothy 2:14; 2 Thessalonians 2:7–8; Titus 1:14
- 17 1 Timothy 1:20; Nahum 3:15; James 5:3
- 18 1 Corinthians 15:12; 1 Timothy 1:19; Hebrews 3:10; 1 Timothy 6:10; Matthew 22:29
- 19 John 10:14; 1 Corinthians 8:3; Nahum 1:7; 1 John 3:7–10; Numbers 16:5
- 20 Romans 9:21–23; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Timothy 3:15; 1 Corinthians 3:9; Ezra 1:6
- 21 Ephesians 2:10; 2 Timothy 3:17; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Psalm 119:9; 1 Peter 1:22
- 22 1 Peter 2:11; 1 Peter 3:11; 1 Corinthians 6:18; 1 Timothy 6:11; Psalm 119:9
- 23 2 Timothy 2:14; Titus 3:9; 1 Timothy 4:7; 1 Timothy 6:4–5; 1 Timothy 1:4
- 24 Titus 3:2; James 1:19–20; Titus 1:7; 1 Thessalonians 2:7; 1 Timothy 3:2–3
- 25 Acts 11:18; Galatians 6:1; 1 Timothy 2:4; 1 John 5:16; Acts 8:22
- 26 1 Timothy 3:7; Isaiah 49:25–26; Psalm 124:7; Colossians 1:13; Isaiah 42:6–7
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
The young sailor at sea is inspired with great confidence, if the Master of the ship has been preserved in a shipwreck. For he will not consider that it is from his inexperience that he is exposed to the storm, but from the nature of things; and this has no little effect upon his mind.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 13 (1889)
But those surgings in me required to find him at full leisure, that I might pour them out to him, but never were they able to find him so; and I heard him, indeed, every Lord's day, "rightly dividing the word of truth" among the people; and I was all the more convinced that all those knots of crafty calumnies, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… discourses with us, both in the Old Testament, and in the New; in the one saying, "O my people, what have I done unto thee?" in the other, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me." And Paul too bids, "In meekness instruct those that oppose themselves." And Christ again, when His disciples had come to Him, requiring fire to come down …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Paul also saith, Remember Jesus Christ raised from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my Gospel: and in the beginning of the Epistle to the Romans he saith, Which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… but rather of the succour rendered "in the power of his might." For He Himself has bound the strong man and spoiled his goods, that is, us men, whom our enemy had abused in every evil activity, and made "vessels meet for the Master's use" us who have been perfected for every work through the making ready of that part …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)