2 Timothy 2:16
But profane, vain babblings shun, for they will advance to greater impiety,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
In Context
17and their word will spread as a gangrene; of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
Cross References
Ezra 10:10And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, Ye have acted unfaithfully, and have taken foreign wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting [is] not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
2 Thessalonians 2:7For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only [there is] he who restrains now until he be gone,
1 Timothy 6:20O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,
2 Timothy 3:13But wicked men and juggling impostors shall advance in evil, leading and being led astray.
Titus 1:14not turning [their] minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning 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 →