2 Timothy 4:10

Paul reports that Demas deserted him out of love for the present world, while three other co-workers departed on legitimate errands. It is a sober reminder that worldly attachment can pull even a former gospel laborer away from faithful service.

Cross-references · 30

• 1 Jn 2:15–16Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
• 2 Tim 1:15This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
• Col 4:14–15Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you.
• 1 Jn 5:4–5For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
• Phlm 1:24as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
• 2 Cor 2:13I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.
• Acts 16:6When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
• Phil 2:21For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
• 2 Tim 4:16At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
• Luke 14:26–27“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
• 1 Tim 6:10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• Luke 14:33So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.
• Luke 16:13No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”
• Luke 17:32Remember Lot’s wife!
• 1 Tim 6:17Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
• Acts 17:1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
• Luke 9:61–62Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”
• Matt 26:56But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
• Acts 17:11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
• 2 Cor 7:6Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
• 2 Cor 8:16But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
• Acts 15:38But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work.
• Gal 1:2and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:
• Acts 17:13But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
• Titus 1:4to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
• 2 Pet 2:15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
• Gal 2:1–3Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
• 2 Cor 8:6So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.
• Acts 13:13Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.
• Acts 18:23Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

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