1 Timothy 6:20

Final Charge And Benediction

¹⁹ storing up for themselves what in the future will prove to be a good foundation, that they may gain the only true Life. ²⁰ Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane prattle and contradictions of what some miscall 'theology,' ²¹ for there are those who, while asserting their proficiency in it, have yet, as regards the Faith, gone altogether astray. God bless you all.

Empty Words

Timotheus

Colossians 2:8

Take care there is not some one who will carry you away by his 'philosophy'--a hollow sham!--following, as it does, mere human traditions, and dealing with puerile questions of this world, and not with Christ.

2 Timothy 2:16

Avoid profane prattle. Those who indulge in it only get deeper into irreligious ways,

Titus 1:14

and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs upon the Truth.

Acts 17:21

(All Athenians and the foreigners staying in the city found no time for anything else but telling, or listening to, the last new thing.)

Romans 3:2

Great in every way. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God's utterances.

Colossians 2:18

Do not let any one defraud you of the reality by affecting delight in so-called 'humility' and angel-worship. Such a man busies himself with his visions, and without reason is rendered conceited by his merely human intellect.

1 Timothy 1:4

nor to devote their attention to legends and interminable genealogies, which tend to give rise to argument rather than to further that divine plan which is revealed in the Faith.

1 Timothy 1:6

And it is because they have not aimed at these things that the attention of certain people has been diverted to unprofitable subjects.

1 Timothy 4:7

As for profane legends and old wives' tales, leave them alone. Train yourself to lead a religious life;

2 Timothy 3:14-16

You, however, must stand by what you learnt and accepted as true. You know who they were from whom you learnt it;

Acts 17:18

Among others, some Epicurean and Stoic Philosophers joined issue with him. Some would ask "What is this prater wanting to make out?", while others would say "He seems to be a Preacher of foreign Deities." (This was because he was telling the Good News about Jesus and the Resurrection).

Romans 1:22

Professing to be wise, they showed themselves fools;

1 Corinthians 1:19-23

For Scripture says-'I will bring the philosophy of the philosophers to nought, and the shrewdness of the shrewd I will make of no account.'

1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet there is a philosophy that we teach to those whose faith is matured, but it is not the philosophy of to-day, nor that of the leaders of to-day-men whose downfall is at hand.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For in God's sight this world's wisdom is folly. Scripture tells of-'One who catches the wise in their own craftiness,'

2 Thessalonians 1:4

So much is this the case that we ourselves speak with pride, before the Churches of God, of the patience and faith which you have shown, in spite of all the persecutions and troubles that you are enduring.

2 Thessalonians 2:15

Stand firm then, Brothers, and hold fast to the truths that we taught you, whether by word or by letter.

1 Timothy 1:11

as is taught in the glorious Good News of the ever-blessed God, with which I was entrusted.

1 Timothy 6:4-5

is puffed up with conceit, not really knowing anything, but having a morbid craving for discussions and arguments. Such things only give rise to envy, quarreling, recriminations, base suspicions,

1 Timothy 6:11

But do you, Servant of God, avoid all this. Aim at righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.

1 Timothy 6:14

I urge you to keep his Command free from stain or reproach, until the Appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 1:12-14

That is why I am undergoing these sufferings; yet I feel no shame, for I know in whom I have put my faith, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until 'That Day.'

2 Timothy 2:1

Do you, then, my Child, find strength in the help which comes from the union with Christ Jesus;

Titus 1:4

To Titus, my true Child in our one Faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Savior, bless you and give you peace.

Titus 1:9

who holds doctrine that can be relied on as being in accordance with the accepted Teaching; so that he may be able to encourage others by sound teaching, as well as to refute our opponents.

Titus 3:9

But have nothing to do with foolish discussions, or with genealogies, or with controversy, or disputes about the Law. They are useless and futile.

Revelation 3:3

Therefore remember what you have received and heard, and lay it to heart and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I shall come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I am coming to you.