TSK · 2 Timothy 2:14

You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty.

Has a nation ever changed its gods(even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!

Then I said,“LORD, you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say,‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods– worthless idols that could not help them at all.

You must no longer say that the LORD’s message is burdensome. For what is‘burdensome’ really pertains to what a person himself says. You are misrepresenting the words of our God, the living God, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

Since we have heard that some have gone out from among us with no orders from us and have confused you, upsetting your minds by what they said,

not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

A Life Pleasing to God Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God(as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more.

nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. Such things promote useless speculations rather than God’s redemptive plan that operates by faith.

For“physical exercise has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way. It holds promise for the present life and for the life to come.”

he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,

Because of this I remind you to rekindle God’s gift that you possess through the laying on of my hands.

But reject foolish and ignorant controversies, because you know they breed infighting.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty.

Indeed, as long as I am in this tabernacle, I consider it right to stir you up by way of a reminder,