2 Timothy 2:16
Avoid profane chatter, for those who engage in such talk will stray further and further into ungodliness,
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
In Context
17and their message will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
2 Thessalonians 2:7For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.
1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to yoʋ and avoid the profane chatter and counterarguments of what is falsely called “knowledge.”
2 Timothy 3:13while evil people and imposters will become worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Titus 1:14not paying any attention to Jewish myths or the commandments of men who turn 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 →