2 Timothy 2:12
New International Version
if we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us;

New Living Translation
If we endure hardship, we will reign with him. If we deny him, he will deny us.

English Standard Version
if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;

Berean Standard Bible
if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us;

Berean Literal Bible
if we endure, we will also reign together with Him; if we will deny Him, He also will deny us;

King James Bible
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

New King James Version
If we endure, We shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us.

New American Standard Bible
If we endure, we will also reign with Him; If we deny Him, He will also deny us;

NASB 1995
If we endure, we will also reign with Him; If we deny Him, He also will deny us;

NASB 1977
If we endure, we shall also reign with Him; If we deny Him, He also will deny us;

Legacy Standard Bible
If we endure, we will also reign with Him; If we will deny Him, He also will deny us;

Amplified Bible
If we endure, we will also reign with Him; If we deny Him, He will also deny us;

Christian Standard Bible
if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he will also deny us;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us;

American Standard Version
if we endure, we shall also reign with him: if we shall deny him, he also will deny us:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if we suffer, we shall also reign with him, but if we renounce him, he will also renounce us.

Contemporary English Version
If we don't give up, we will rule with him. If we deny that we know him, he will deny that he knows us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.

English Revised Version
if we endure, we shall also reign with him: if we shall deny him, he also will deny us:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If we endure, we will rule with him. If we disown him, he will disown us.

Good News Translation
If we continue to endure, we shall also rule with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

International Standard Version
Enduring, we with him will reign. Who him denies, he will disclaim.

Literal Standard Version
if we endure together—we will also reign together; if we deny [Him], He will also deny us;

Majority Standard Bible
if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us;

New American Bible
if we persevere we shall also reign with him. But if we deny him he will deny us.

NET Bible
If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.

New Revised Standard Version
if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he will also deny us;

New Heart English Bible
If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

Webster's Bible Translation
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

Weymouth New Testament
"If we patiently endure pain, we shall also share His Kingship; "If we disown Him, He will also disown us;

World English Bible
If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

Young's Literal Translation
if we do endure together -- we shall also reign together; if we deny him, he also shall deny us;

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Context
Grace and Perseverance
11This is a trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him; 12if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us; 13if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.…

Cross References
Matthew 10:33
But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven.

Matthew 19:28
Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Luke 12:9
But whoever denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God.

Luke 22:29
And I bestow on you a kingdom, just as My Father has bestowed one on Me,

Luke 22:30
so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Romans 5:17
For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

Romans 8:17
And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ--if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.


Treasury of Scripture

If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

we suffer.

Matthew 19:28,29
And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel…

Acts 14:22
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Romans 8:17
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

if we deny.

Proverbs 30:9
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

Matthew 10:33
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 26:35,75
Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples…

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2 Timothy 2
1. Timothy is exhorted again to constancy and perseverance.
17. Of Hymenaeus and Philetus.
19. The foundation of the Lord is sure.
22. He is taught whereof to beware, and what to follow after.














(12) If we suffer, we shall also reign with him.--And the faithful saying went on with this stirring declaration. How, it seems to ask, can a believer in Christ shrink from suffering, when he knows what to him will be the glorious consequences of this present suffering? The word rendered "suffer" would be better translated, if we endure--that is, if we bravely bear up against sufferings for His sake, and all the while work on with hand and brain for Him and for our brother as best we can. If we do this in this life, we shall, in the life to come, reign with Him--more than merely live with Him, as the last verse told us: we shall even "be kings with Him." (See Romans 5:17; Romans 8:17; and Revelation 1:6, where Jesus Christ is especially spoken of as having made us "kings.") The promise thus woven into the faithful saying, and repeated in these several passages, of the "reign of the saints in Christ," gives us a strangely glorious hope--a marvellous on-look, concerning the active and personal work which Christ's redeemed will be intrusted with in the ages of eternity.

If we deny him, he also will deny us.--But there is another side to the words of the Blessed. While to the faithful and the believer He will grant to sit down with Him on His throne, the faithless and unbeliever will have no share in the glories of the life to come. These grave warnings are apparently addressed rather to unfaithful members of the outward and visible Church, than to the Pagan world who have never known Christ. The words, "He also will deny us," imply something of a recognition on the part of us who are denied by Him--something of an expectation on our part that He would recognise us as friends. They are evidently an echo of the Lord's own sad reply to those many who will say to Him in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? . . . and then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity." (Matthew 7:22-23. See too Matthew 10:33 and Mark 8:33.) . . .

Verse 12. - Endure for suffer, A.V.; shall deny for deny, A.V. and T.R. Endure; as ver. 10. Mark the present tense as distinguished from the aorist in ἀπεθάνομεν, betokening patient continuance in suffering. If we shall deny him (ἀρνησόμεθα); comp. Matthew 10:30; Luke 12:9; Acts 3:13, 14, etc.

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Greek
if
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

we endure,
ὑπομένομεν (hypomenomen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 5278: From hupo and meno; to stay under, i.e. Remain; figuratively, to undergo, i.e. Bear, have fortitude, persevere.

we will also reign [with Him];
συμβασιλεύσομεν (symbasileusomen)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 4821: To reign together with. From sun and basileuo; to be co-regent.

if
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

we deny [Him],
ἀρνησόμεθα (arnēsometha)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 720: Perhaps from a and the middle voice of rheo; to contradict, i.e. Disavow, reject, abnegate.

He will also deny
ἀρνήσεται (arnēsetai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 720: Perhaps from a and the middle voice of rheo; to contradict, i.e. Disavow, reject, abnegate.

us;
ἡμᾶς (hēmas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.


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