2 Timothy 2:16
But reject the unsanctified empty talks: for they will proceed unto more of ungodliness,
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
In Context
17and their word like gangrene will have eating. Of whom are Hymenaeus and Phyletus;
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 already the mystery of lawlessness is working: only there is one now hindering, until he may be taken out of the midst;
1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, stand guard over that which has been committed to you, avoiding unsanctified, empty talks and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called,
2 Timothy 3:13But wicked men and seducers will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Titus 1:14not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men turning 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 →