Question:
2 Timothy 2:12: “If we disown Him, He disowns us” (NASB). Is this an accurate translation?

Answer:
Yes, it is an accurate translation. A true believer cannot deny (or disown) the Lord, for John 10:27-30 says it is impossible to do that. Once you are saved you are always saved. See John 3:16.

This chapter is talking about everyone who professes to be saved. Some aren’t truly saved who profess to be saved. The last part of 2 Timothy 2:12 is speaking of those who are not saved. There are people who are called apostates who are not saved, but who try to take others away from Christ. An apostate is one who at one time professed to believe something and then turned away from it. In John 6 we are told that many disciples walked no more with Christ. Though they walked with Christ for a while, they never were saved, for they never received the words of eternal life (John 6:66-69).