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

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can't be saved."

and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Understanding

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."

They answered Jesus, and said, "We don't know." He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

"Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.'

Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

General references

"Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.