2 Timothy 4:5

American Standard Version (1901)

But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.

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  • 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;
  • 2 Tim 2:3 : 3 Suffer hardship with [me], as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
  • Acts 21:8 : 8 And on the morrow we departed, and came unto Caesarea: and entering into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we abode with him.
  • Col 4:17 : 17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.
  • 1 Thess 5:6 : 6 so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.
  • 1 Tim 4:12 : 12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.
  • 1 Tim 4:15 : 15 Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all.
  • Acts 20:30-31 : 30 and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. 31 Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.
  • Eph 4:11 : 11 And he gave some [to be] apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
  • 2 Tim 3:10-12 : 10 But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience, 11 persecutions, sufferings. What things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12 Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
  • Heb 13:17 : 17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit [to them] : for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this [were] unprofitable for you.
  • 1 Pet 1:13 : 13 Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
  • Rev 3:2 : 2 Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die: for I have found no works of thine perfected before my God.
  • Col 1:25 : 25 whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,
  • 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
  • Rom 15:19 : 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;
  • Isa 62:6 : 6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah's remembrancers, take ye no rest,
  • Jer 6:17 : 17 And I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken.
  • Ezek 3:17 : 17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
  • Ezek 33:2 : 2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
  • Ezek 33:7 : 7 So thou, son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
  • Mark 13:34 : 34 [ It is] as [when] a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded also the porter to watch.
  • Mark 13:37 : 37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
  • Luke 12:37 : 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and shall come and serve them. [
  • Isa 56:9-9 : 9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea], all ye beasts in the forest. 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

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    3 giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;

    4 but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

    5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

  • 2 preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

  • 2 Tim 2:2-3
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    2 And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

    3 Suffer hardship with [me], as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

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    6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure is come.

    7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

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    15 Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all.

    16 Take heed to thyself, and to thy teaching. Continue in these things; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee.

  • 6 If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed [until now] :

  • 17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

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    14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

    15 Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

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    11 These things command and teach.

    12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

    13 Till I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

  • 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

  • 8 Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;

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    10 But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

    11 persecutions, sufferings. What things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.

    12 Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

  • 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.

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    9 whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.

    10 And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.

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    4 so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

    5 [ which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

  • 13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

  • Phil 1:27-28
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    27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;

    28 and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;

  • Col 1:24-25
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    24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

    25 whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,

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  • 2 Tim 2:9-10
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    9 wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.

    10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

  • 12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

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    23 save that the Holy Spirit testifieth unto me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

    24 But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

  • 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:

  • 9 Give diligence to come shortly unto me:

  • 18 This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to thee, that by them thou mayest war the good warfare;

  • 30 having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

  • 21 prove all things; hold fast that which is good;

  • 31 Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.

  • 4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

  • 9 The things which ye both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

  • 10 not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

  • 27 [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

  • 24 And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,