2 Timothy 2:15

2:15 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. ¹ 

2 Timothy 4:10

4:10 For Demas deserted me, since he loved ²  the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. ³  Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia.

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¹ sn Accurately is a figure of speech that literally means something like “cutting a straight road.” In regard to the message of truth, it means “correctly handling” or “imparting it without deviation.”

² tn Grk “having loved.”

³ map For location see JP1-C1; JP2-C1; JP3-C1; JP4-C1.