1 Timothy 6:20

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Summary

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

O timothy

1 Timothy 6:11

2 Timothy 2:1

Avoiding

Oppositions

Bible References

O timothy

But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, mildness.

Thou therefore, my child, be strong in the grace in Christ Jesus.

Avoiding

he is puffed up, understanding nothing, but doting about disputes and word controversies, from which develop envy, strife, revilings, evil surmisings,

nor to heed myths and endless genealogies, which cause controversies rather than stewardship of God in faith.

But reject the profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself to piety.

But continue thou in what thou learned and were convinced of, knowing from whom thou learned them.

to Titus, a genuine child according to the common faith: Grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

But avoid foolish questionings, and genealogies, and contentions, and legal fightings, for they are useless and vain.

Oppositions

And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, Whatever does this babbler want to say? But others, He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities, because he brought the good-news--Jesus and t

Professing to be wise, they became foolish,

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding.

But we speak wisdom among the fully developed, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who come to nothing.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He who catches the wise in their craftiness,

Take heed lest there will be any man taking you captive through the love of wisdom and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ.