2 Timothy 2:16
But shun profane babblings, for they will advance to greater impiety,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
In Context
17and their word will have a feeding field like gangrene, of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
Cross References
Ezra 10:10And Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, Ye have trespassed, and have married foreign women to increase the guilt of Israel.
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
2 Thessalonians 2:7For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only he who restrains it until now will develop from the midst.
1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, keep the entrustment, avoiding the profane babblings and objections of the falsely-called knowledge,
2 Timothy 3:13But evil men and impostors will go forward to worse, leading astray and being led astray.
Titus 1:14not giving heed to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 2:15-19
Cautions against Error. ( a. d. 66.) 14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. 15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. 17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus; 18 Who concerning the truth have… Read the whole commentary →