2 Timothy 2:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Σπούδασον σεαυτὸν δόκιμον παραστῆσαι τῷ Θεῷ, ἐργάτην ἀνεπαίσχυντον, ὀρθοτομοῦντα τὸν λόγον τῆς ἀληθείας.

Transliteration

Spoudason seauton dokimon parastēsai tō Theō, ergatēn anepaischynton, orthotomountta ton logon tēs alētheias.

Grammar Details

• *Spoudason*: aorist, imperative, active, 2nd singular - be diligent
• *seauton*: reflexive pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular - yourself
• *dokimon*: accusative, masculine, singular, adjective - approved
• *parastēsai*: aorist, infinitive, active - to present
• *tō*: definite article, dative, masculine, singular - to the
• *Theō*: dative, masculine, singular - to God
• *ergatēn*: accusative, masculine, singular - worker
• *anepaischynton*: accusative, masculine, singular, adjective - not ashamed
• *orthotomountta*: present, participle, active, accusative, masculine, singular - cutting straight
• *ton*: definite article, accusative, masculine, singular - the
• *logon*: accusative, masculine, singular - word
• *tēs*: definite article, genitive, feminine, singular - of the
• *alētheias*: genitive, feminine, singular - of truth

Word Meanings

• *Spoudason*: be diligent/make every effort/be eager
• *dokimon*: approved/tested/accepted
• *parastēsai*: to present/show/exhibit
• *Theō*: God/deity
• *ergatēn*: worker/laborer
• *anepaischynton*: not ashamed/unashamed/having no cause for shame
• *orthotomountta*: cutting straight/rightly dividing/handling correctly
• *logon*: word/message/account
• *alētheias*: truth/reality

Referenced Verses

• 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall {G4417} never {G4218} stumble:
• 2 Pet 1:15 : 15 Yea, I will give diligence that at every time ye may be able after my decease to call these things to remembrance.
• 2 Cor 10:18 : 18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
• 2 Cor 5:9 : 9 Wherefore also we make it our aim, {G2532} whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.
• 1 Thess 2:4 : 4 but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.
• Acts 20:27 : 27 For I {G5288} shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God.
• 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
• 2 Pet 3:14 : 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.
• Gal 1:10 : 10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? {G1063} if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.
• Eph 1:13 : 13 in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, — in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
• Heb 5:11-14 : 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing. 12 For {G1063} when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. 13 For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. 14 But solid food is for fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern {G5037} good and evil.
• Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
• 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.
• 1 Tim 4:6 : 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]:
• 1 Tim 4:12-16 : 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. 14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. 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.
• 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
• Acts 2:22 : 22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God unto you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as ye yourselves know;
• Heb 4:11 : 11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.
• Rom 16:10 : 10 Salute Apelles the approved in Christ. Salute them that are of the [household] of Aristobulus.
• 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought:
• Rom 14:18 : 18 For he that herein {G5125} serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men.
• Luke 12:42 : 42 And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall set over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season?
• John 21:15-17 : 15 So when they had broken their fast, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, [son] of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. 16 He saith to him again a second time, Simon, [son] of John, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Tend my sheep. 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
• Matt 13:52 : 52 And he said unto them, Therefore every scribe who hath been made a disciple to the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
• 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, {G2532} not with meat; for {G3768} ye were not yet able [to bear it]: nay, not even now are ye able;
• 2 Cor 6:3-4 : 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,
• Mark 4:33 : 33 And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it;