2 Timothy 1:6

Paul urges Timothy to stir up, or fan into flame, the gift of God given him through Paul's laying on of hands. Spiritual gifts must be actively cultivated, not neglected.

Cross-references · 18

• 1 Tim 4:14Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
• 1 Pet 4:10–11As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
• Rom 12:6–8Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
• 1 Th 5:19Quench not the Spirit.
• 2 Pet 3:1This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
• 2 Tim 4:2Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
• 2 Pet 1:12Wherefore 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.
• Matt 25:15–30And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
• Exod 35:26And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’ hair.
• Exod 36:2And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
• Acts 19:6And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
• Acts 8:17–18Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
• Luke 19:13And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.
• 2 Tim 2:14Of 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.
• 1 Tim 4:6If 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.
• Isa 43:26Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
• Jude 1:5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
• Heb 6:2Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

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