Rightly Handling the Word of Truth
Channel: South Austin church of Christ
Date: 2022-10-24

Rightly Handling the Word of Truth
Buy Truth, and Do Not Sell It

2 Timothy 2:15
• 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.

2 Timothy 2:15
“rightly handling” (ὀρθοτομέω)
• cut in a straight line
• compare ὀρθῶς

2 Timothy 2:15
“rightly handling” comes from ὀρθός, straight:
• in height, upright, standing
• in Geometry, at right angles to
• in line, straight (opposite of crooked or aslant)


2 Timothy 2:15 “rightly handling”
Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.

Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight,
but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.

Mark 7:32, 35
They brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment….
And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.

Luke 7:41–43
"A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they could not pay, he cancelled the debt of both.
Now which of them will love him more?" Simon answered, "The one, I suppose, for whom he cancelled the larger debt." And he said to him, "You have judged rightly."

Luke 10:25–29
Behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?"
And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."

Luke 10:25–29
And he said to him, "You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live." But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

Apostles and Preachers
2 Corinthians 4:2
We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways.
2 Timothy 2:15
a worker who has no need to be ashamed

2 Corinthians 4:2
We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word
2 Timothy 2:15
rightly handling the word of truth.

2 Corinthians 4:2
by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to…
2 Timothy 2:15
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved

2 Corinthians 4:2
…everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
2 Timothy 2:15
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved