2 Timothy 2:25

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,

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  • 1 Tim 2:4 : 4 who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;
  • Gal 6:1 : 1 Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who `are' spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;
  • Acts 8:22 : 22 reform, therefore, from this thy wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of thy heart may be forgiven thee,
  • 1 Pet 3:15 : 15 and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And `be' ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that `is' in you, with meekness and fear;
  • Acts 2:38 : 38 and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,
  • 1 Tim 6:11 : 11 and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;
  • Acts 11:18 : 18 And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, `Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.'
  • Acts 20:21 : 21 testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 22:1-9 : 1 `Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence now unto you;' -- 2 and they having heard that in the Hebrew dialect he was speaking to them, gave the more silence, and he saith, -- 3 `I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day. 4 `And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women, 5 as also the chief priest doth testify to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters unto the brethren, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished, 6 and it came to pass, in my going on and coming nigh to Damascus, about noon, suddenly out of the heaven there shone a great light round about me, 7 I fell also to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute? 8 `And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? and he said unto me, I am Jesus the Nazarene whom thou dost persecute -- 9 and they who are with me the light did see, and became afraid, and the voice they heard not of him who is speaking to me -- 10 and I said, What shall I do, Lord? and the Lord said unto me, Having risen, go on to Damascus, and there it shall be told thee concerning all things that have been appointed for thee to do. 11 `And when I did not see from the glory of that light, being led by the hand by those who are with me, I came to Damascus, 12 and a certain one, Ananias, a pious man according to the law, being testified to by all the Jews dwelling `there', 13 having come unto me and stood by `me', said to me, Saul, brother, look up; and I the same hour did look up to him; 14 and he said, The God of our fathers did choose thee beforehand to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice out of his mouth, 15 because thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard; 16 and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord. 17 `And it came to pass when I returned to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, I came into a trance, 18 and I saw him saying to me, Haste and go forth in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me; 19 and I said, Lord, they -- they know that I was imprisoning and was scourging in every synagogue those believing on thee; 20 and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was being poured forth, I also was standing by and assenting to his death, and keeping the garments of those putting him to death; 21 and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.' 22 And they were hearing him unto this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, `Away from the earth with such an one; for it is not fit for him to live.' 23 And they crying out and casting up their garments, and throwing dust into the air,
  • Matt 11:29 : 29 take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,
  • Mark 1:3-4 : 3 `A voice of one calling in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye his paths,' -- 4 John came baptizing in the wilderness, and proclaiming a baptism of reformation -- to remission of sins,
  • Mark 1:15 : 15 and saying -- `Fulfilled hath been the time, and the reign of God hath come nigh, reform ye, and believe in the good news.'
  • John 5:34 : 34 `But I do not receive testimony from man, but these things I say that ye may be saved;
  • Jer 13:15-17 : 15 Hear, and give ear -- be not haughty, For Jehovah hath spoken. 16 Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness. 17 And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive.
  • Jer 31:18-19 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou `art' Jehovah my God. 19 For after my turning back I repented, And after my being instructed I struck on the thigh, I have been ashamed, I have also blushed, For I have borne the reproach of my youth.
  • Ezek 11:19 : 19 And I have given to them one heart, And a new spirit I do give in your midst, And I have turned the heart of stone out of their flesh, And I have given to them a heart of flesh.
  • Ezek 36:31 : 31 And ye have remembered your ways that `are' evil, And your doings that `are' not good, And have been loathsome in your own faces, For your iniquities, and for your abominations.
  • 2 Tim 3:7 : 7 always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,
  • Titus 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that `is' according to piety,
  • Acts 5:21 : 21 and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the sanhedrim and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought,
  • Acts 5:31 : 31 this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;
  • Jas 1:17 : 17 every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;
  • 1 John 5:16 : 16 If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give to him life to those sinning not unto death; there is sin to death, not concerning it do I speak that he may beseech;
  • Titus 3:2 : 2 of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men,
  • Zech 12:10 : 10 And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born.
  • Ezek 36:26 : 26 And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh.
  • Jer 31:33 : 33 For this `is' the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.
  • Jer 26:12-15 : 12 And Jeremiah speaketh unto all the heads, and unto all the people, saying, `Jehovah sent me to prophesy concerning this house, and concerning this city, all the words that ye have heard; 13 And now, amend your ways, and your doings, and hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God, and Jehovah doth repent concerning the evil that He hath spoken against you. 14 `And I, lo, I `am' in your hand, do to me as is good and as is right in your eyes; 15 Only, know ye certainly, that if ye are putting me to death, surely innocent blood ye are putting on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly hath Jehovah sent me unto you to speak in your ears all these words.'
  • Matt 21:32 : 32 for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last -- to believe him.

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  • 24and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

  • 26and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.

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    14These things remind `them' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

    15be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

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    7concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

    8discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.

    9Servants -- to their own masters `are' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

    10not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

  • Titus 3:1-3
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    1Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,

    2of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

    3for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;

  • Rom 2:4-5
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    4or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? -- not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

    5but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

  • Jas 5:19-20
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    19Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back,

    20let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

  • 1Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who `are' spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;

  • 2preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

  • 2with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

  • 15because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men;

  • 15and as an enemy count `him' not, but admonish ye `him' as a brother;

  • 2 Tim 3:7-8
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    7always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,

    8and, even as Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, so also these do stand against the truth, men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith;

  • 9holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

  • 12teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

  • 3if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety,

  • 7so that, on the contrary, `it is' rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

  • 20an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law.

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    13this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

    14not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

  • 4who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;

  • 15these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!

  • 15As many, therefore, as `are' perfect -- let us think this, and if `in' anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,

  • 7be considering what things I say, for the Lord give to thee understanding in all things.

  • 22reform, therefore, from this thy wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of thy heart may be forgiven thee,

  • 8and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath,

  • 10and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,

  • 15and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And `be' ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that `is' in you, with meekness and fear;

  • 2 Cor 6:3-4
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    3in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,

    4but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

  • 10And thou -- thou hast followed after my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance,

  • 6and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.

  • 23meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;

  • 20Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

  • 13Who `is' wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

  • 21what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?

  • 20for what renown `is it', if sinning and being buffeted, ye do endure `it'? but if, doing good and suffering `for it', ye do endure, this `is' gracious with God,

  • 21wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;

  • 21if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;

  • 14and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;

  • 3If so be they hearken, and turn back each from his evil way, then I have repented concerning the evil that I am thinking of doing to them, because of the evil of their doings.