4 Bible Verses about Fables
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nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which present questions, rather than the economy of God which is in faith:
Submitting these things to the brethren, you will be a beautiful minister of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of faith, and the beautiful teaching which you have followed; but reject the unsanctified and silly stories: but exercise yourself unto godliness.
For not having followed cunningly devised fables, have we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but having been eyewitnesses of his majesty.
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Fables » Not giving heed to fables
As I exhorted you to remain in Ephesus, I going into Macedonia, in order that you may command certain ones not to teach heterodoxy, nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which present questions, rather than the economy of God which is in faith:
For many are incorrigible, speaking vain things and egotistical, especially those from the circumcision, whose mouths it is necessary to stop; who overturn whole families, teaching those things which it does not behoove, for the sake of disgraceful gain. A certain one of them, their own prophet, said, The Cretans are all liars, evil beasts, slow stomachs. read more.
This testimony is true: on account of which cause convict them sharply, in order that they may be sound in the faith, not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men turning away from the truth.
Fables » Some being turned to fables
preach the word: be instant in season and out of season; convict, exhort, rebuke, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure healthy teaching; but according to their own lusts they will heap to themselves teachers itching as to their hearing; and they will indeed turn their hearing from the truth, and be turned unto fables.
