2 Timothy 2:16

But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,

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In The King James Version

But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

In Context

15Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.

17And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;

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Cross References

Ezra 10:10And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, so increasing the sin of Israel.

1 Corinthians 5:6This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

2 Thessalonians 2:7For the secret of evil is even now at work: but there is one who is keeping back the evil till he is taken out of the way.

1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, take good care of that which is given to you, turning away from the wrong and foolish talk and arguments of that knowledge which is falsely so named;

2 Timothy 3:13Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

Titus 1:14Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.

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 →

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