2 Timothy 2:16

Avoid profane talk, which leads to more and more godlessness.

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But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

In Context

15Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no reason to be ashamed, who accurately teaches the word of truth.

17Their talk will spread like cancer. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

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Cross References

Ezra 10:10Ezra the priest arose and said, “You yourselves have committed treason. You lived with foreign women so as to increase Israel's guilt.

1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole loaf?

2 Thessalonians 2:7For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only there is someone who restrains him now until he is taken out of the way.

1 Timothy 6:20Timothy, protect what was given to you. Avoid the foolish talk and conflicting ideas of what is falsely called knowledge.

2 Timothy 3:13Evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse, leading others and themselves astray.

Titus 1:14not paying any attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of people 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 →

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