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2 Timothy 2

The Message Bible MSG

1 So, my son, throw yourself into this work for Christ.

2 Pass on what you heard from me - the whole congregation saying Amen! - to reliable leaders who are competent to teach others.

3 When the going gets rough, take it on the chin with the rest of us, the way Jesus did.

4 A soldier on duty doesn't get caught up in making deals at the marketplace. He concentrates on carrying out orders.

5 An athlete who refuses to play by the rules will never get anywhere.

6 It's the diligent farmer who gets the produce.

7 Think it over. God will make it all plain.

8 Fix this picture firmly in your mind: Jesus, descended from the line of David, raised from the dead. It's what you've heard from me all along.

9 It's what I'm sitting in jail for right now - but God's Word isn't in jail!

10 That's why I stick it out here - so that everyone God calls will get in on the salvation of Christ in all its glory.

11 This is a sure thing: If we die with him, we'll live with him;

12 If we stick it out with him, we'll rule with him; If we turn our backs on him, he'll turn his back on us;

13 If we give up on him, he does not give up - for there's no way he can be false to himself.

14 Repeat these basic essentials over and over to God's people. Warn them before God against pious nitpicking, which chips away at the faith. It just wears everyone out.

15 Concentrate on doing your best for God, work you won't be ashamed of, laying out the truth plain and simple.

16 Stay clear of pious talk that is only talk. Words are not mere words, you know. If they're not backed by a godly life,

17 they accumulate as poison in the soul. Hymenaeus and Philetus are examples,

18 throwing believers off stride and missing the truth by a mile by saying the resurrection is over and done with.

19 Meanwhile, God's firm foundation is as firm as ever, these sentences engraved on the stones: God knows who belongs to him. spurn evil, all you who name god as god.

20 In a well-furnished kitchen there are not only crystal goblets and silver platters, but waste cans and compost buckets - some containers used to serve fine meals, others to take out the garbage.

21 Become the kind of container God can use to present any and every kind of gift to his guests for their blessing.

22 Run away from infantile indulgence. Run after mature righteousness - faith, love, peace - joining those who are in honest and serious prayer before God.

23 Refuse to get involved in inane discussions; they always end up in fights.

24 God's servant must not be argumentative, but a gentle listener and a teacher who keeps cool,

25 working firmly but patiently with those who refuse to obey. You never know how or when God might sober them up with a change of heart and a turning to the truth,

26 enabling them to escape the Devil's trap, where they are caught and held captive, forced to run his errands.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 tu ergo fili mi confortare in gratia quae est in Christo Iesu

2 et quae audisti a me per multos testes haec commenda fidelibus hominibus qui idonei erunt et alios docere

3 labora sicut bonus miles Christi Iesu

4 nemo militans inplicat se negotiis saecularibus ut ei placeat cui se probavit

5 nam et qui certat in agone non coronatur nisi legitime certaverit

6 laborantem agricolam oportet primum de fructibus accipere

7 intellege quae dico dabit enim tibi Dominus in omnibus intellectum

8 memor esto Iesum Christum resurrexisse a mortuis ex semine David secundum evangelium meum

9 in quo laboro usque ad vincula quasi male operans sed verbum Dei non est alligatum

10 ideo omnia sustineo propter electos ut et ipsi salutem consequantur quae est in Christo Iesu cum gloria caelesti

11 fidelis sermo nam si conmortui sumus et convivemus

12 si sustinemus et conregnabimus si negabimus et ille negabit nos

13 si non credimus ille fidelis manet negare se ipsum non potest

14 haec commone testificans coram Domino noli verbis contendere in nihil utile ad subversionem audientium

15 sollicite cura te ipsum probabilem exhibere Deo operarium inconfusibilem recte tractantem verbum veritatis

16 profana autem inaniloquia devita multum enim proficient ad impietatem

17 et sermo eorum ut cancer serpit ex quibus est Hymeneus et Philetus

18 qui a veritate exciderunt dicentes resurrectionem iam factam et subvertunt quorundam fidem

19 sed firmum fundamentum Dei stetit habens signaculum hoc cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius et discedat ab iniquitate omnis qui nominat nomen Domini

20 in magna autem domo non solum sunt vasa aurea et argentea sed et lignea et fictilia et quaedam quidem in honorem quaedam autem in contumeliam

21 si quis ergo emundaverit se ab istis erit vas in honorem sanctificatum et utile Domino ad omne opus bonum paratum

22 iuvenilia autem desideria fuge sectare vero iustitiam fidem caritatem pacem cum his qui invocant Dominum de corde puro

23 stultas autem et sine disciplina quaestiones devita sciens quia generant lites

24 servum autem Domini non oportet litigare sed mansuetum esse ad omnes docibilem patientem

25 cum modestia corripientem eos qui resistunt nequando det illis Deus paenitentiam ad cognoscendam veritatem

26 et resipiscant a diaboli laqueis a quo capti tenentur ad ipsius voluntatem