2 Timothy 2:16

From vain words which have no utility in them withdraw; for they add greatly to the wickedness of those who are occupied with them.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15And be careful to establish thyself perfectly before Aloha, a workman without shame, preaching rightly the word of truth.

17And their words as an eating cancer will lay hold upon many: but one of them is Hymeneos, and another Philetos,

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 5:6MY brethren, your boasting is not seemly. Know you not that a little leaven the whole mass leaveneth?

2 Thessalonians 2:7For the mystery of iniquity already beginneth to be effective; only if that which now holdeth be taken from the midst,

1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, watch over that which is confided to thee, and fly from vain words, and the turnings of false knowledge.

2 Timothy 3:13But wicked men and seducers add to their wickedness, deceiving, and being deceived.

Titus 1:14nor cast themselves to the fables of the Jihudoyee, and to the mandates of men who hate 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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