2 Timothy 2:16
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they grow much towards ungodliness.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
In Context
17And their speech spreadeth like a canker: of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus:
Cross References
Ezra 10:10And Esdras the priest stood up, and said to them: You have transgressed, and taken strange wives, to add to the sine of Israel.
1 Corinthians 5:6Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump ?
2 Thessalonians 2:7For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way.
1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane novelties of words, and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called.
2 Timothy 3:13But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and driving into error.
Titus 1:14Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men, who turn 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 →