How to Avoid Teaching Error
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Remember the Solemn Charge
2 Timothy 2:14 a,b
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord
…that they strive not about words to no profit,
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A Serious Consequence
2 Timothy 2:14c
but to the subverting of the hearers.
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Resist Compromise
2 Timothy 2:15
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed…
2 Timothy 2:15
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:15
…rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:16
16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
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Recognize Contagious Error
2 Timothy 2:17-18
17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus;
18 who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
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Rest in Christ
2 Timothy 2:19
19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal,
The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.