If anyone's argument is that it ought to be translated "Be diligent to present yourself approved" then explain please how one will be diligent to present himself approved without studying in the other sense of reading the Scriptures? Those who try and make "be diligent" mean that we don't have to "study" in the sense of reading the Bible, are merely looking to cause trouble, just caviling unbelievers. After all, 1 Tim 4:13 is essentially the parallel passage in the other letter to Timothy, "Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine." Now, compare 2 Tim 2:15 "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." Now, how will a man "be diligent" to be approved by God and rightly divide the word of truth without reading the word of truth? Perhaps one will be diligent to be approved of God by bodily exercise. (smirk)