2 Timothy 2:16

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Summary

2 Timothy 2:16

But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

Shun

Titus 3:9

For

General references

Leviticus 13:7

2 Timothy 2:23

Bible References

Shun

Remind them of these things, and charge them before Godnot to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.

Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness;

O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge,"

not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

For

while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.

Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals."

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.

They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.

One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast.

General references

But if the eruption spreads in the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again before the priest.

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.