Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
Parallel translations
- WEB which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.
- BSB which some have professed and thus swerved away from the faith. Grace be with you all.
- NKJV by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.
- NASB which some have professed and thereby have gone astray from the faith. Grace be with you.
- NLT Some people have wandered from the faith by following such foolishness. May God’s grace be with you all.
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Quick answer
Some who embraced this false knowledge have wandered from the faith. Paul ends with a blessing: grace be with you.
Overview
Paul warns that professing this counterfeit knowledge has caused some to stray from the faith, a final caution against doctrinal error. The letter closes, as Paul's letters characteristically do, with a benediction of grace. Grace, the unmerited favor of God in Christ, is both the foundation and the final word for Timothy and the church.
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Cross-references · 13
- 2 Tim 2:18Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
- Titus 3:15All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
- 1 Tim 1:6From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
- 1 Tim 6:10For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
- 1 Tim 1:19Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
- 2 Tim 4:22The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
- Rom 1:7To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Rom 16:20And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
- Col 4:18The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
- Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
- Rom 16:23Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
- Heb 13:25Grace be with you all. Amen.
- Heb 10:1–12For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
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