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 2:15–16Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• 2 Tim 1:15This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
• Col 4:14–15Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
• 1 Jn 5:4–5For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
• Phlm 1:24Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.
• 2 Cor 2:13I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
• Acts 16:6Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,
• Phil 2:21For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
• 2 Tim 4:16At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
• Luke 14:26–27If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
• 1 Tim 6:10For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• Luke 14:33So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot 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 the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
• Luke 17:32Remember Lot’s wife.
• 1 Tim 6:17Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
• Acts 17:1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:
• Luke 9:61–62And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
• Matt 26:56But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
• Acts 17:11These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
• 2 Cor 7:6Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
• 2 Cor 8:16But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
• Acts 15:38But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
• Gal 1:2And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:
• Acts 17:13But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.
• Titus 1:4To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
• 2 Pet 2:15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
• Gal 2:1–3Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
• 2 Cor 8:6Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
• Acts 13:13Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.
• Acts 18:23And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

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