2 Timothy 2:16
But profane chatter bereft of kedushah, avoid, for such will advance that which is frai (irreligious).
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
In Context
17Their lashon hora will spread like gangrene, as in the case of Hymenaeus and Philetus,
Cross References
Ezra 10:10Then Ezra HaKohen stood up and said to them, You have been unfaithful and have married foreign women adding to Ashmat Yisroel.
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not have da'as that a little chametz all the mixture leavens?
2 Thessalonians 2:7For the Sod HaMufkarut (Mystery of Lawlessness) is already working; only he who holds back and restrains just now will do so until he is out of the way.
1 Timothy 6:20O Timotiyos, the pikkadon (deposit) + 6:20 of Moshiachʼs torah, Ac 2:42 entrusted to you be shomer over, turning away from the profane empty utterances and oppositions of the falsely named Da'as + 6:20 proto-Gnostic, see 1Y 1—5 (Knowledge),
2 Timothy 3:13But anashim ra'im and impostors will progress to their abysmal worst, misleading and being misled.
Titus 1:14Not paying attention to Jewish aggadot and to mitzvot d'Rabbanan (precepts imposed by the rabbis), + 1:14 i.e., which contradict the Kitvei Hakodesh — 1C 4:6; Dt 4:2 becoming meshummad (apostate) from HaEmes.
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 →