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Study to be approved..
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Quote: 2 Timothy 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

This would be Paul speaking to Timothy, but I don't find anywhere in Torah that studying Torah makes us 'approved'.

This is the NIV version
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

And the CJB version
15 Do all you can to present yourself to God as someone worthy of his approval, as a worker with no need to be ashamed, because he deals straightforwardly with the Word of the Truth.

The Greek word, 'Spoudazo', basically means to give diligence or to hasten to, it is only once translated to read 'study'.
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I did a study of that verse from the Greek and came up with a slightly different undersatnding than the KJV. It is as follows:
"Dilligently make every effort to study thine-own-self
acceptable in order to assit the Elohim,
a teacher that needs not to be ashamed,
preaching correctly The Word; The Truth."

Even though you may not find this in the Torah, keep in mind that Shaul [Saul]/Powlos[Paul] was exhorting TimoTheos[Timothy] as an Aposle of whom which is preaching the Good News of the Torah. So Shaul not wanting TimoTheos to be as ignorant as many where of his (Shaul's) Writings was exhorting TimoTheos to study the Scriptures (i.e. - Torah - Tanak). Most of this ignorance was due to the fact that the gentiles converts did not study the Tanak to be able to fully understand what Shaul was trying to convey in his Writings, so in turn they came at his Writings with a paganized Greek mindset.

Keep in mind that every preist as with all the Hebrew kings where to make a copy of the Torah so that they would know what it says. Also in the Psalms Dahweed[David], as one of the Hebrew kings, claimed that he studied the Scriptures. So it is not a strange thing for a teacher of Torah to tell their underlings that they need to study the Scriptures so that they will know what, and what not, to preach in the Names of YHWH and His Son Yehoshua. Otherwise they would not only not be assiting the Elohim, but they would come to be ashamed when another witness steps up to question them.

Many a preacher today do not have a clue as to what the word actually says yet they have no problem re-espousing what they hear from others in the same boat as that they have handed down hearsay as opposed to The (actual) Word.
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