Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
teaching » Those that teach doctrines contrary to Christ’s
Any one who teaches otherwise, and refuses his assent to sound instruction--the instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ--and to the teaching of religion, 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, and incessant wrangling on the part of these corrupt-minded people who have lost all hold on the Truth, and who think of religion only as a source of gain.
There are, indeed, many unruly persons--great talkers who deceive themselves, principally converts from Judaism, whose mouths ought to be stopped; for they upset whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, merely to make questionable gains. It was a Cretan--one of their own teachers--who said: 'Cretans are always liars, base brutes, and gluttonous idlers'; and his statement is true. read more.
Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the Faith, and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs upon the Truth. Everything is pure to the pure-minded, but to those whose minds are polluted and who are unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are alike polluted. They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown him. They are degraded and self-willed; and, as far as anything good is concerned, they are utterly worthless.
Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the Faith, and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs upon the Truth. Everything is pure to the pure-minded, but to those whose minds are polluted and who are unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are alike polluted. They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown him. They are degraded and self-willed; and, as far as anything good is concerned, they are utterly worthless.
I beg you, as I did when I was on my way into Macedonia, to remain at Ephesus; that you may instruct certain people there not to teach new and strange doctrines, 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. The object of all instruction is to call forth that love which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith. read more.
And it is because they have not aimed at these things that the attention of certain people has been diverted to unprofitable subjects. They want to be Teachers of the Law, and yet do not understand either the words they use, or the subjects on which they speak so confidently.
And it is because they have not aimed at these things that the attention of certain people has been diverted to unprofitable subjects. They want to be Teachers of the Law, and yet do not understand either the words they use, or the subjects on which they speak so confidently.
Vanity » Foolish questions, &c are
Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane prattle and contradictions of what some miscall 'theology,'
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Avoid profane prattle. Those who indulge in it only get deeper into irreligious ways,
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Remind people of all this; urge them solemnly, as in the sight of God, to avoid controversy, a useless thing and the ruin of those who listen to it.
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And it is because they have not aimed at these things that the attention of certain people has been diverted to unprofitable subjects.
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Vanity » Foolish questions are
Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane prattle and contradictions of what some miscall 'theology,'
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But have nothing to do with foolish discussions, or with genealogies, or with controversy, or disputes about the Law. They are useless and futile.
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Avoid profane prattle. Those who indulge in it only get deeper into irreligious ways,
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Remind people of all this; urge them solemnly, as in the sight of God, to avoid controversy, a useless thing and the ruin of those who listen to it.
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And it is because they have not aimed at these things that the attention of certain people has been diverted to unprofitable subjects. They want to be Teachers of the Law, and yet do not understand either the words they use, or the subjects on which they speak so confidently.