2 Timothy 2:16

But from irreligious and frivolous talk hold aloof, for those who indulge in it will proceed from bad to worse in impiety,

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15Earnestly seek to commend yourself to God as a servant who, because of his straightforward dealing with the word of truth, has no reason to feel any shame.

17and their teaching will spread like a running sore. Hymenaeus and Philetus are men of that stamp.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 5:6It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough?

2 Thessalonians 2:7For lawlessness is already at work in secret; but only until the man who is now exercising a restraining influence is removed,

1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, guard the truths entrusted to you, shunning irreligious and frivolous talk, and controversy with what is falsely called `knowledge';

2 Timothy 3:13But bad men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, misleading and being misled.

Titus 1:14and not give attention to Jewish legends and the maxims of men who turn their backs on 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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