2 Timothy 2:22

Timothy must flee youthful passions and instead pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace alongside other sincere believers. Holiness involves both fleeing sin and actively pursuing godliness in community.

Cross-references · 26

• 1 Pet 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• 1 Pet 3:11Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
• 1 Cor 6:18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
• 1 Tim 6:11But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
• Ps 119:9Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
• Heb 12:14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
• 1 Tim 4:12Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
• Ps 66:18–19If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
• 1 Cor 10:14Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
• 1 Tim 1:5Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
• Eccl 11:9–10Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
• 3 Jn 1:11Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
• 1 Chr 29:17–18I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.
• Rom 14:19Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
• Rom 15:5–6Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
• 1 Cor 1:10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
• Prov 6:5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
• 1 Cor 14:1Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
• Acts 9:14And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
• 1 Cor 1:2Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
• Rom 14:17For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
• 1 Tim 2:8I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
• 1 Tim 1:14And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
• Prov 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
• Ps 17:1Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
• Acts 7:59And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

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