2 Timothy 2:16
But profane vain bablings avoid: for they will proceed to greater lengths of impiety.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
In Context
17And their discourse will eat like as a gangrene; of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus;
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?
2 Thessalonians 2:7For the mystery of iniquity is already powerfully working; only he that withholdeth hitherto, will do so till he is removed.
1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, guard the sacred deposit, avoiding profane trifling talk, and antitheses of misnamed science:
2 Timothy 3:13But wicked men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and deceived.
Titus 1:14not attending to Jewish fables, and injunctions of men, who have turned 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 →