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2 Timothy 2:5

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And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

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  1. 2 Timothy 2:3

    Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

  2. 2 Timothy 2:4

    No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

  3. 2 Timothy 2:6

    The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

  4. 2 Timothy 2:7

    Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.