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NASB | 2 Timothy 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 2:15 Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth. |
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Bible Note: John, Oh I have overcome, breaking thru some 2000 years of antisemitism, of distancing gentiles from anything that smacks of Jewishness for hatred's sake. Deu 30:10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. Deu 30:11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. Deu 30:12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Deu 30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Deu 30:14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. Deu 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; Deu 30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. Lev 18:5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD. Lev 19:37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD. Deu 5:32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments Joh 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Joh 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 1Jn 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. What commandments are all these verses talking about? They have to be what God told Moses to tell the people, He hasn't changed His marching orders. The New Testament is not a book of new rules and regulations or a new religion, it's a wonderful God-inspired commentary on how to live out God's Torah thru His Son. Except for the life of the "Promised One" and the history of the early community, there is nothing new in it. It's at least 1/2 of quotes and explanations of what was already written. If you read God's instructions and attempt to do them in the letter (and not in the spirit of which they were intended) then of course you cannot do them all. You would even have to say that Jesus Himself broke many commandments in the performing of others. He broke the sabbath by healing, life always takes precedence. David ate the showbread which was unlawful but again, life takes precedence. Jesus and His men ate the standing wheat while journeying on a sabbath (the taking of it wasn't unlawful but the rolling it open in the hands was work). The levites and priests actually did temple work on sabbath. You gotta use your God given brain John. God instructions on how to live godly righteous lives has not changed and it's not impossible to obey. The one thing that did change is that there is now an atonement for blatant disobedience - Jesus. |