2 Timothy 2:16
Avoid profane prattle. Those who indulge in it only get deeper into irreligious ways,
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
In Context
17and their teaching will spread like a cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are instances of this.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is unseemly. Don’t you know that even a little yeast leavens all the dough?
2 Thessalonians 2:7Wickedness, indeed, is already at work in secret, but only until he who at present restrains it is removed out of the way.
1 Timothy 6:20Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane prattle and contradictions of what some miscall ‘theology,’
2 Timothy 3:13but wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves.
Titus 1:14and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs on 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 →