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 do you, O man of God, flee these things: but pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, mildness.

Do you, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Avoiding

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

nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies; which, indeed, occasion disputes rather than God's dispensation, which is in faith, so do I now.

but refuse the profane and old wives fables, and exercise yourself unto godliness;

But do you abide in the, things which you learned and were assured of; knowing from whom you learned them;

to Titus, a true child according to the common faith: grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

But shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strife, and contentions about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Oppositions

And some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were encountering him. And some said, "What would this babbler wish to say?" And others said, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods;" because he proclaimed the good tidings of Jesus and the resurrection.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For it has been written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning will I set aside."

But we speak wisdom among the perfect; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought;

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it has been written, "He Who taketh the wise in their craftiness."

Beware, lest there should be any one who makes a spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceits, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ;