2 Timothy 2:16

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

Remind men of this: adjure them before the Lord not to bandy arguments ??no good comes out of that, it only means the undoing of your audience.

Shut your mind against these profane, drivelling myths; train for the religious life.

O Timotheus, keep the securities of the faith intact: avoid the profane jargon and contradictions of what is falsely called 'Knowledge.'

instead of studying Jewish myths and rules laid down by men who have discarded the Truth.

But avoid foolish controversy, and let genealogies and dissensions and strife over the Law alone, for these are fruitless and futile.

Bad characters and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves;

Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump?

Make no mistake about this: 'bad company is the ruin of good character.'

For the secret force of lawlessness is at work already; only, it cannot be revealed till he who at present restrains it is removed.

they must be silenced, for they are undermining whole families by teaching objectionable doctrine for the base end of making money.

see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you;

and many will follow their immorality (thanks to them the true Way will be maligned);

One of his heads looked as if it had been slain and killed, but the deadly wound was healed, and the whole earth went after him in wonder,

Shut your mind against foolish, popular controversy; be sure that only breeds strife.