For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
Parallel translations
- KJV 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.
- BSB For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
- NKJV Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
- NASB For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
- NLT This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you.
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- 1 Tim 4:14Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
- 1 Pet 4:10–11As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
- Rom 12:6–8Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
- 1 Th 5:19Don’t quench the Spirit.
- 2 Pet 3:1This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;
- 2 Tim 4:2preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
- 2 Pet 1:12Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
- Matt 25:15–30To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
- Exod 35:26All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair.
- Exod 36:2Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it:
- Acts 19:6When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.
- Acts 8:17–18Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
- Luke 19:13He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’
- 2 Tim 2:14Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
- 1 Tim 4:6If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
- Isa 43:26Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.
- Jude 1:5Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
- Heb 6:2of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
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