2 Timothy 2:16

Avoid vain discourses, in which there is no profit; for they very much add to the wickedness of those occupied with them.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15And study to present thyself before God, perfectly, a laborer who is not ashamed, one who correctly announceth the word of truth.

17And their discourse, like an eating cancer, will lay hold upon many. And one of these is Hymeneus, and another Philetus;

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 5:6Your glorying is not praiseworthy. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?

2 Thessalonians 2:7For the mystery of the evil One already beginneth to be operative: and only, if that which now hindereth shall be taken from the midst;

1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, be careful of that which is committed to thee; and shun vain words, and the oppositions of false science:

2 Timothy 3:13But evil and seducing men will add to their wickedness, while they deceive and are deceived.

Titus 1:14and may not throw themselves into Jewish fables, and into the precepts 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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