2 Timothy 2:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ταῦτα ὑπομίμνησκε, διαμαρτυρόμενος ἐνώπιον τοῦ Κυρίοῦ μὴ λογομαχεῖν εἰς οὐδὲν χρήσιμον, ἐπὶ καταστροφῇ τῶν ἀκουόντων.

Transliteration

These hypomimnēske, diamartyromenos enōpion tou Kyriou mē logomachein eis ouden chrēsimon, epi katastrophē tōn akouontōn.

Grammar Details

*Tauta*: demonstrative pronoun, accusative, neuter, plural - these things
*hypomimnēske*: present, imperative, active, 2nd singular - remind
*diamartyromenos*: present, participle, middle, nominative, masculine, singular - solemnly charging
*enōpion*: preposition + genitive - before/in the presence of
*tou*: definite article, genitive, masculine, singular - of the
*Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Lord
*mē*: negative particle - not
*logomachein*: present, infinitive, active - to dispute about words
*eis*: preposition + accusative - for/unto
*ouden*: adjective, accusative, neuter, singular - nothing
*chrēsimon*: accusative, neuter, singular, adjective - useful
*epi*: preposition + dative - to/resulting in
*katastrophē*: dative, feminine, singular - ruin
*tōn*: definite article, genitive, masculine, plural - of the
*akouontōn*: present, participle, active, genitive, masculine, plural - hearing/listening ones

Word Meanings

*hypomimnēske*: remind/put in remembrance
*diamartyromenos*: solemnly charging/testifying/warning
*Kyriou*: Lord/Master
*logomachein*: to dispute about words/argue about terms
*chrēsimon*: useful/profitable/beneficial
*katastrophē*: ruin/destruction/overthrow
*akouontōn*: hearing ones/listeners/hearers

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Referenced Verses

2 Tim 2:23 : 23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
2 Tim 4:1 : 1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Rom 14:1 : 1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Jer 7:8 : 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
1 Sam 12:21 : 21 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Matt 16:26 : 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
1 Tim 6:13 : 13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
Titus 3:9-9 : 9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. 10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; 11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
Heb 13:9 : 9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
2 Pet 1:13 : 13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
1 Tim 6:4-5 : 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
2 Tim 2:16 : 16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
Acts 13:10 : 10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Acts 15:24 : 24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
Jer 2:8 : 8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
Jer 2:11 : 11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Jer 16:19 : 19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Jer 23:32 : 32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
Jer 23:36 : 36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
Hab 2:18 : 18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Gal 1:7 : 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Eph 4:17 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
2 Thess 3:6 : 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
1 Tim 1:4 : 4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
1 Tim 1:6 : 6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
1 Tim 4:8 : 8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable{(G5624)} unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
2 Tim 1:6 : 6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

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2 Tim 2:15-17
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15Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
17And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
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6If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
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15Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
16Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
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23But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
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3If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
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8This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable{(G5624)} unto men.
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12Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
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13This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
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6From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
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14And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
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16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
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11These things command and teach.
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2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
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15Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.
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