2 Timothy 2:16
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase to more ungodliness.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
In Context
17And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus;
Cross References
Ezra 10:10And Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken foreign wives to increase the trespass of Israel.
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
2 Thessalonians 2:7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now restraineth will restrain, until he be taken out of the way.
1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called;
2 Timothy 3:13But evil men and seducers will become worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Titus 1:14Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men that turn 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 →