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.

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Understanding

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2 Timothy 1:11

Bible References

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Some people came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers that unless they were circumcised as Moses prescribed, they could not be saved.

and you are sure that you can guide the blind, enlighten people who are in the dark,

This is all I want to ask you: Did you receive the Spirit through doing what the Law commands, or through believing the message you heard?

Tell me this, you who want to be subject to law: Will you not listen to the Law?

I insist again to any man who lets himself be circumcised, that he is under obligation to obey the whole Law.

For there are many undisciplined people, who deceive themselves with their empty talk, especially those of the party of circumcision.

Understanding

is a conceited, ignorant person, with a morbid craving for speculations and arguments which result only in envy, quarreling, abuse, base suspicions,

Leave them alone. They are blind guides! But if one blind man leads another, they will both fall into the ditch!"

And they answered Jesus, "We do not know." He said to them, "Nor will I tell you what authority I have for doing as I do.

Alas for you, you blind guides, who say, 'If anyone swears by the sanctuary, it does not matter, but if anyone swears by the gold of the sanctuary, it is binding.'

Nicodemus said to him, "How can that be?"

Some Pharisees who were present heard this, and they said to him, "Then are we blind too?"

They called themselves wise, but they have turned into fools,

always ready to learn but never able to comprehend the truth.

These men, like unreasoning animals, mere creatures of instinct created to be caught and killed, abuse what they do not understand and will be destroyed like animals,

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of which I have been appointed a herald, apostle and teacher.