2 Timothy 1:13

Timothy is to hold to the pattern of sound teaching he received from Paul, doing so in faith and love. Sound doctrine and Christlike character belong together.

Cross-references · 28

• Titus 1:9holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
• 2 Tim 3:14But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
• Phil 4:9The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
• Rom 6:17But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
• 2 Tim 2:2The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
• Rev 3:11I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
• Rev 3:3Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
• 1 Tim 1:14The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Tim 6:3If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
• Heb 10:23let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
• Rom 2:20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
• Jude 1:3Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
• 2 Tim 1:14That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
• Prov 23:23Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
• Titus 2:1But say the things which fit sound doctrine,
• Phil 1:27Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
• Prov 3:21My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
• 1 Tim 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
• Prov 4:4–8He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
• Heb 4:14Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
• 1 Th 5:21Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
• Titus 2:8and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
• Heb 3:6but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
• Rev 2:25Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.
• Prov 4:13Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
• Col 1:4having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
• Prov 3:18She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
• Prov 8:14Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

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