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 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• 1 Pet 3:11Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.
• 1 Cor 6:18Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
• 1 Tim 6:11But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
• Ps 119:9How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
• Heb 12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
• 1 Tim 4:12Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
• Ps 66:18–19If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
• 1 Cor 10:14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
• 1 Tim 1:5but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;
• Eccl 11:9–10Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
• 3 Jn 1:11Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.
• 1 Chr 29:17–18I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
• Rom 14:19So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.
• Rom 15:5–6Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
• 1 Cor 1:10Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
• Prov 6:5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
• 1 Cor 14:1Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
• Acts 9:14Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”
• 1 Cor 1:2to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
• Rom 14:17for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
• 1 Tim 2:8I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
• 1 Tim 1:14The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
• Prov 15:8The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
• Ps 17:1A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
• Acts 7:59They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

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