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 2:15–16Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• 2 Tim 1:15You know that everyone in the Province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
• Col 4:14–15Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas send you greetings.
• 1 Jn 5:4–5because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
• Phlm 1:24as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
• 2 Cor 2:13I had no peace in my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.
• Acts 16:6After the Holy Spirit had prevented them from speaking the word in the province of Asia, they traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia.
• Phil 2:21For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
• 2 Tim 4:16At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
• Luke 14:26–27“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
• 1 Tim 6:10For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
• Luke 14:33In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
• Luke 16:13No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
• Luke 17:32Remember Lot’s wife!
• 1 Tim 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
• Acts 17:1When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
• Luke 9:61–62Still another said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first let me bid farewell to my family.”
• Matt 26:56But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.
• Acts 17:11Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
• 2 Cor 7:6But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,
• 2 Cor 8:16But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you.
• Acts 15:38But Paul thought it best not to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.
• Gal 1:2and all the brothers with me, To the churches of Galatia:
• Acts 17:13But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.
• Titus 1:4To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
• 2 Pet 2:15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
• Gal 2:1–3Fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem, accompanied by Barnabas. I took Titus along also.
• 2 Cor 8:6So we urged Titus to help complete your act of grace, just as he had started it.
• Acts 13:13After setting sail from Paphos, Paul and his companions came to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them to return to Jerusalem.
• Acts 18:23After Paul had spent some time in Antioch, he traveled from place to place throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

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