14你要提醒众人这些事，在主面前嘱咐他们：不要为言词争辩，因为那对听见的人有害无益。15你应当竭力在上帝面前做经得起考验、问心无愧的工人，正确地阐释真理之道。16要远避一切世俗的空谈，因为好空谈的人只会越来越不敬虔。17他们讲的话像毒疮，只会越烂越大，许米乃和腓理徒就是例子。18他们离经背道，说复活的事已成过去，动摇了许多人的信心。19然而，上帝所立的坚实根基永不动摇，这根基上刻着：“主认识谁是属于祂的人”，“凡自称是属于主的人都要离弃罪恶。”20大户人家不但有金器银器，也有木器瓦器，这些器皿的用途有贵贱之分。21人若洁身自爱，远离卑贱的事，就必成为圣洁无瑕的贵重器皿，可以被主用来成就各样的善事。22你要逃避年轻人的邪情私欲，要跟那些以清洁的心求告主的人一同追求公义、信心、仁爱、和平。23不要参与愚昧无知的辩论，因为这些事只会引起纷争。24上帝的奴仆不可与人争执，总要温和待人，善于教导，心存忍耐。25要温柔地规劝那些反对我们的人，也许上帝会赐给他们悔改的心，使他们明白真理，26让他们这些被魔鬼掳去、受其摆布的人能够醒悟过来，脱离魔鬼的网罗。
English Standard Version
A Good Soldier of Christ Jesus
1You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,2and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men,* who will be able to teach others also.3Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.4No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.5An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.6It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.7Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.8Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,9for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!10Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.11The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him;12if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;13if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.
A Worker Approved by God
14Remind them of these things, and charge them before God* not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.15Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,* a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.16But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,17and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,18who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some.19But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”20Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable.21Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable,* he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.22So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.23Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.24And the Lord’s servant* must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,25correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,26and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
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