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

As for you the minister of God, avoid those things: adhere to justice, piety, faith, charity, patience, and benignity of temper.

As for you, my son, strenuously acquit yourself of the charge you have receiv'd from Christ Jesus.

Avoiding

he is full of pride and ignorance, touch'd with a spirit of chicanery and wrangling, productive of envy, contention, calumny,

or trouble their heads with fables and endless genealogies, which rather promote disputes than the gospel-dispensation:

as for prophane and groundless fables, reject them.

But be you attach'd to the doctrine you have learnt, with which you are intrusted, considering by whom you have been instructed:

TO Titus my own convert to the common faith: grace and peace from God the father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our saviour.

but avoid frivolous enquiries about genealogies, and vexatious disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Oppositions

there certain Epicurean and Stoick philosophers encountred him: "what does this mountebank mean?" said some: "he seems to proclaim some strange deitys," said others: because he talk'd to them of Jesus and the resurrection.

pretending to be wise, they became fools:

for it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."

However, what we preach is wisdom, to those who are thoroughly instructed: yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who will soon come to nothing.

for the wisdom of this world is folly, in the eye of God: as it is written, "he surprizes the wise in all their artifices."

beware lest any one seduce you by the vain illusions of philosophy, founded upon human traditions, and meer shadows, and not upon Christ: