1 Timothy 6:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 do you, O man of God, avoid these things; but pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Do you therefore, my son, be strong in the grace in Christ Jesus,

Avoiding

he is blinded and knows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words, from which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions,

nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.]

but avoid profane and silly myths; exercise yourself in piety;

But do you continue in what you learned and understood, knowing from whom you learned,

to Titus my faithful son in the common faith; grace and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Oppositions

And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers disputed with him, and some said, What does this trifler mean to say? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange demons; because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

Saying that they were wise they became foolish,

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the intelligent.

But we speak wisdom among the perfect, but not the wisdom of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, who are destroyed;

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written; He takes the wise in their craftiness.

See that no one leads you off as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,