2 Timothy 2:16
but avoid profane babble; for people will go farther and farther in impiety,
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
In Context
17and their teaching will spread like a gangrene.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that even a little leaven leavens all the lump?
2 Thessalonians 2:7For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only there is one who is hindering and will continue to hinder till he be removed;
1 Timothy 6:20O, Timothy, guard the treasure which is committed to you. Shun the profane babblings and contradictions of the falsely called "knowledge"
2 Timothy 3:13But wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving others, and being themselves deceived.
Titus 1:14so as to make them sound in the faith, not giving heed to Jewish myths and 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 →