Work hard so you can present yourself to God and receive his approval. Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly explains the word of truth.

你当竭力在神面前得蒙喜悦，作无愧的工人，按着正意分解真理的道。

你当竭力在上帝面前作一个经得起考验、无愧的工人，按着正意讲解真理的话。

你当竭力在神面前作一个经得起考验、无愧的工人，按着正意讲解真理的话。

你应当竭力在上帝面前做经得起考验、问心无愧的工人，正确地阐释真理之道。

你应当竭力在神面前作一个蒙称许、无愧的工人，正确地讲解真理的道。

你要努力地向神显明自己是经过考验的，是无愧的工人，能正确分解真理的话语。

你當竭力在神面前得蒙喜悅，作無愧的工人，按着正意分解真理的道。

你當竭力在上帝面前作一個經得起考驗、無愧的工人，按着正意講解真理的話。

你當竭力在神面前作一個經得起考驗、無愧的工人，按着正意講解真理的話。

你應當竭力在上帝面前做經得起考驗、問心無愧的工人，正確地闡釋真理之道。

你應當竭力在神面前作一個蒙稱許、無愧的工人，正確地講解真理的道。

你要竭力在上帝面前明示自己是被試驗為可嘉的，是無愧的工人，把真理之道解析得得體。

你要努力地向神顯明自己是經過考驗的，是無愧的工人，能正確分解真理的話語。

宜殷勤獻己於上帝、蒙其嘉納、為無愧之傭、善佈真道、

務能悅於上帝、為操作、無愧怍、善頒真理、

爾當取悅於天主、為無愧之工、善頒真道、

汝當努力善操聖道莫使失真、庶幾不愧為天主所悅之良工。

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

Do your best to please God. Be a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed. Teach the message of truth correctly.

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Be diligent to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a worker who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

For we speak as messengers approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He alone examines the motives of our hearts.

If you explain these things to the brothers and sisters, Timothy, you will be a worthy servant of Christ Jesus, one who is nourished by the message of faith and the good teaching you have followed.

So whether we are here in this body or away from this body, our goal is to please him.

So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Do these things, and you will never fall away.

When people commend themselves, it doesn’t count for much. The important thing is for the Lord to commend them.

Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.Until I get there, focus on reading the Scriptures to the church, encouraging the believers, and teaching them.Do not neglect the spiritual gift you received through the prophecy spoken over you when the elders of the church laid their hands on you.Give your complete attention to these matters. Throw yourself into your tasks so that everyone will see your progress.Keep a close watch on how you live and on your teaching. Stay true to what is right for the sake of your own salvation and the salvation of those who hear you.

We reject all shameful deeds and underhanded methods. We don’t try to trick anyone or distort the word of God. We tell the truth before God, and all who are honest know this.

so I will work hard to make sure you always remember these things after I am gone.

Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.

He chose to give birth to us by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation, became his prized possession.

There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen.You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food.For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right.Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.

He has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life.

And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to be found living peaceful lives that are pure and blameless in his sight.

Brothers and sisters, we urge you to warn those who are lazy. Encourage those who are timid. Take tender care of those who are weak. Be patient with everyone.

Yet when I am among mature believers, I do speak with words of wisdom, but not the kind of wisdom that belongs to this world or to the rulers of this world, who are soon forgotten.

After breakfast Jesus asked Simon Peter,“ Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”“ Yes, Lord,” Peter replied,“ you know I love you.”“ Then feed my lambs,” Jesus told him.Jesus repeated the question:“ Simon son of John, do you love me?”“ Yes, Lord,” Peter said,“ you know I love you.”“ Then take care of my sheep,” Jesus said.A third time he asked him,“ Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt that Jesus asked the question a third time. He said,“ Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you.” Jesus said,“ Then feed my sheep.

Greet Apelles, a good man whom Christ approves. And give my greetings to the believers from the household of Aristobulus.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring all that God wants you to know.

So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.

And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago.

“ People of Israel, listen! God publicly endorsed Jesus the Nazarene by doing powerful miracles, wonders, and signs through him, as you well know.

Then he added,“ Every teacher of religious law who becomes a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a homeowner who brings from his storeroom new gems of truth as well as old.”

If you serve Christ with this attitude, you will please God, and others will approve of you, too.

And the Lord replied,“ A faithful, sensible servant is one to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his other household servants and feeding them.

Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ.I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready,

We live in such a way that no one will stumble because of us, and no one will find fault with our ministry.In everything we do, we show that we are true ministers of God. We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind.

Jesus used many similar stories and illustrations to teach the people as much as they could understand.