2 Timothy 2:16
But avoid profane or empty talk. For these things advance one greatly in impiety.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
In Context
17And their word spreads like a cancer: among these are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
Cross References
Ezra 10:10And Ezra, the priest, rose up, and he said to them: “You have transgressed, and you have taken foreign wives, so that you added to the offenses of Israel.
1 Corinthians 5:6It is not good for you to glory. Do you not know that a little leaven corrupts the entire mass?
2 Thessalonians 2:7For the mystery of iniquity is already at work. And only one now holds back, and will continue to hold back, until he is taken from our midst.
1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, guard what has been deposited with you, avoiding the voice of profane novelties and of opposing ideas, which are falsely called knowledge.
2 Timothy 3:13But evil men and deceivers will advance in evil, erring and sending into error.
Titus 1:14not paying attention to Jewish fables, nor to the rules of men who have turned themselves 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 →