1 Timothy 1:7

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Summary

1 Timothy 1:7

Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

To

Understanding

General references

Job 38:2

2 Timothy 1:11

Bible References

To

Now certain men came down from Judaea, teaching the brothers and saying that without circumcision, after the rule of Moses, there is no salvation.

In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,

Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?

Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.

For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,

Understanding

He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.

Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

And they made answer and said, We have no idea. Then he said to them, And I will not say to you by what authority I do these things.

A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.

And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?

These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind?

Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.

But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

General references

Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher;