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2 Timothy 1:14

That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.

KJV

τὴν καλὴν παραθήκην φύλαξον διὰ πνεύματος ἁγίου τοῦ ἐνοικοῦντος ἐν ἡμῖν.

Greek NT

Bonum depositum custodi per Spiritum Sanctum, qui habitat in nobis.

Vulgate

That good thing which was committed unto thee guard through the Holy Spirit which dwelleth in us.

ASV

Keep the good thing committed to thy trust by the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in us.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

διά
dia
preposition · 633×
καλός
kalos
adjective · 100×
παραθήκη
paratheke
noun · 3×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
φυλάσσω
phulasso
verb · 31×
ἅγιος
agios
adjective · 233×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐνοικέω
enoikeo
verb · 6×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§84The apostles entrusted the "Sacred deposit" of the faith (the depositum fidei),45 contained in Sacred Scripture and Tradition, to the whole of the Church. "By adhering to [this heritage] the entire holy people, united to its pastors, remains always faithful to the teaching of the apostles, to the brotherhood, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. So, in maintaining, practis…
§857The Church is apostolic because she is founded on the apostles, in three ways: - she was and remains built on "the foundation of the Apostles,"362 The witnesses chosen and sent on mission by Christ himself;363 - with the help of the Spirit dwelling in her, the Church keeps and hands on the teaching,364 The "good deposit," the salutary words she has heard from the apostles;365 -…
§1202The diverse liturgical traditions have arisen by very reason of the Church's mission. Churches of the same geographical and cultural area came to celebrate the mystery of Christ through particular expressions characterized by the culture: in the tradition of the "deposit of faith,"67 in liturgical symbolism, in the organization of fraternal communion, in the theological underst…
God graciously arranged that the things He had once revealed for the salvation of all peoples should remain in their entirety, throughout the ages, and be transmitted to all generations. Hence, there exists a close connection and communication between sacred tradition and Sacred Scripture. For both of them, flowing from the same divine wellspring, in a certain way merge into a …

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 3:16 — Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
  • 1Cor 3:16 — Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
  • 1Cor 6:19 — What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
  • 1Cor 9:17 — For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
  • 1John 3:24 — And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
  • 1Pet 1:22 — Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
  • 1Pet 1:22 — Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
  • 1Thess 2:4 — But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
  • 1Thess 5:19 — Quench not the Spirit.
  • 1Tim 1:11 — According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
  • 1Tim 6:20 — O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
  • 2Cor 5:16 — Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
  • 2Cor 5:19 — To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
  • 2Cor 6:16 — And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my p
  • 2Tim 1:12 — For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against th
  • 2Tim 1:13 — Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
  • 2Tim 2:2 — And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
  • 2Tim 4:7 — I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
  • Col 4:11 — And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me.
  • Eph 2:22 — In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
  • Eph 5:18 — And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
  • Gal 2:7 — But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
  • John 14:17 — Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
  • John 14:17 — Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
  • John 14:26 — But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
  • Luke 16:11 — If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
  • Rom 3:2 — Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
  • Rom 8:9 — But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
  • Rom 8:9 — But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
  • Rom 8:11 — But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
  • Rom 8:13 — For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.