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 4:14Don’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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