Parallel Verses

Moffatt New Testament

they will give up listening to the Truth and turn to myths.

New American Standard Bible

and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.

King James Version

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Holman Bible

They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.

International Standard Version

They will refuse to listen to the truth and will turn to myths.

A Conservative Version

and will indeed turn the ear away from the truth, and will be turned aside to myths.

American Standard Version

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.

Amplified

and will turn their ears away from the truth and will wander off into myths and man-made fictions [and will accept the unacceptable].

An Understandable Version

They will refuse to listen to the truth and will turn their attention to myths.

Anderson New Testament

and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to fables.

Bible in Basic English

And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

Common New Testament

and will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

Daniel Mace New Testament

which, while they are deaf to the truth, attentively listen to fables.

Darby Translation

and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.

Godbey New Testament

and they will indeed turn their hearing from the truth, and be turned unto fables.

Goodspeed New Testament

and they will turn from listening to the truth and wander off after fictions.

John Wesley New Testament

And they will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.

Julia Smith Translation

And truly from the truth will they turn away the hearing, and be turned aside to fictions.

King James 2000

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto myths.

Lexham Expanded Bible

and they will turn away from the hearing of the truth, but will turn to myths.

Modern King James verseion

And they will turn away their ears from the truth and will be turned to myths.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and shall turn their ears from the truth, and shall be given unto fables:

Montgomery New Testament

They will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to myths.

NET Bible

And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.

New Heart English Bible

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to myths.

Noyes New Testament

and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.

Sawyer New Testament

and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to myths.

The Emphasized Bible

And, from the truth, indeed, their ear, will they turn away, while, unto stories, they will turn themselves aside.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and listen unto fables.

Twentieth Century New Testament

They will turn a deaf ear to the Truth, and give their attention to legends instead.

Webster

And they will turn away their ears from the truth, and will be turned to fables.

Weymouth New Testament

and will turn away from listening to the truth and will turn aside to fables.

Williams New Testament

and they will cease to listen to the truth and will turn to listen to myths.

World English Bible

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.

Worrell New Testament

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to the fables.

Worsley New Testament

and turn away their attention from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

Youngs Literal Translation

and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

ἀποστρέφω 
Apostrepho 
Usage: 8

ἀκοή 
Akoe 
Usage: 21

ἀπό 
Apo 
from, of, out of, for, off, by, at, in, since 9, on, not tr., .
Usage: 490

the truth
ἀλήθεια 
Aletheia 
Usage: 87

and
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

ἐκτρέπω 
Ektrepo 
Usage: 5

ἐπί 
Epi 
on, in, upon, unto, to,
Usage: 644

References

Context Readings

Paul's Charge To Timothy

3 for the time will come when people will decline to be taught sound doctrine and will accumulate teachers to suit themselves and tickle their own fancies; 4 they will give up listening to the Truth and turn to myths. 5 Whatever happens, be self-possessed, flinch from no suffering, do your work as an evangelist, and discharge all your duties as a minister.


Cross References

1 Timothy 1:4

and studying myths and interminable genealogies; such studies bear upon speculations rather than on the divine order which belongs to faith.

1 Timothy 4:7

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

1 Timothy 6:20

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

Titus 1:14

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

2 Peter 1:16

For it was no fabricated fables that we followed when we reported to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus Christ; we were admitted to the spectacle of his sovereignty,

Acts 7:57

With a loud shriek they shut their ears and rushed at him like one man.

2 Timothy 1:15

You are aware that all the Asiatics have discarded me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

Hebrews 13:25

Grace be with you all. Amen.

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