Passage

Keep the words you heard

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

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¹³Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 1:13World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

The reader is urged to keep the pattern of sound words heard from the writer, in faith and love in Christ Jesus.

To understand

The writer has spoken of suffering and of trusting the one in whom he believes to guard what he entrusted. The reader is to guard the good deposit through the Holy Spirit dwelling in them.

A question

Through whom is the reader to guard the good deposit?