2 Timothy 2:14-26 has been before us in writing the following somewhat provocative article.

1. Striving, and striving about words to no profit, is forbidden (v. 14,24).

2. The only approval we should seek is that of God (v. 15).

3. To misplace a truth, may eat as a gangrene (v. 17,18).

4. While we have no fears concerning the `sure foundation', we have a responsibility to `depart from iniquity' (v.

5. We have no call to attempt to `purge' other servants of God, but if we would be `meet for the Master's use' we

must `purge ourselves' from any complicity with known error (v. 21).

6. Such exhortations as `shun', `depart', `flee', `avoid', cannot be ignored (v. 16,19,22,23). We cannot sit on the

7. All at length leads to `IF GOD PERADVENTURE'. Here we stop and God alone carries forward (v. 25,26).

8. The dreadful alternative being 2 Timothy 3:7.