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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And some, coming down from Judaea, were teaching the brethren, "Unless ye be circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved."

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

This only do I wish to learn of you: Did ye receive the Spirit by works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

Tell me, ye who are wishing to be under law, do ye not hear the law?

And I testify again to every man who is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

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

Understanding

he has become puffed up, knowing nothing, but morbid about questions and word-battles, out of which come envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

Let them alone; they are blind guides; and if a blind man be guiding a blind man, both will fall into a pit."

And, answering Jesus, they said, "We do not know." He also said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things."

"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whosoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!'

Nicodemus answered, and said to 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 full knowledge of the truth.

But these, as irrational creatures, born naturally for capture and destruction, railing in matters of which they are ignorant, shall in their destruction be also destroyed,

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for which I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher.