What does 2 Timothy 2:5 mean?

2 Timothy 2:5 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply 2 Timothy 2:5 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

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

3Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

4No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

5And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

6The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

7Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

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