2 Timothy 2:13
11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he can not deny himself.
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.
- KJV
- If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he can not deny himself.
- WEB
- If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”
- ASV
- if we are faithless, he abideth faithful; for he cannot deny himself.
- DARBY
- if we are unfaithful, *he* abides faithful, for he cannot deny himself.
- BLB
- if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He is not able to deny Himself.
- ÅB
- er vi troløse, så er han trofast; for han kan ikke fornekte seg selv.
- OTB
- Hvis vi er troløse,
forblir Han trofast,
for Han kan ikke fornekte seg selv. - B1930
- er vi troløse, så er han trofast; for han kan ikke fornekte sig selv.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Read in contextRomans 3:3
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
Read in context1 Thessalonians 5:24
Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
Read in context2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
Read in contextTitus 1:2
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Read in context1 Corinthians 1:9
God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Read in contextHebrews 6:18
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Read in contextMatthew 24:35
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
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