2 Timothy 2:16
and stand aloof from the profane vain talkings, for they will advance to more impiety,
Literal Standard 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 pasture as a gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,
Cross References
Ezra 10:10And Ezra the priest rises and says to them, “You have trespassed, and you settle strange women, to add to the guilt of Israel;
1 Corinthians 5:6Your glorying [is] not good; have you not known that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
2 Thessalonians 2:7for the secret of lawlessness already works, only the [One] now restraining [will do so] until He may come out of [the] midst,
1 Timothy 6:20O Timotheus, guard the thing entrusted, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,
2 Timothy 3:13and evil men and impostors will advance to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.
Titus 1:14not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning 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 →