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2 Tim. 2:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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2 Tim. 2:14• ¹⁴Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the Lord not to have disputes of words, profitable for nothing, to the subversion of the hearers. (2 Tim. 2:14)

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1 Tim. 4:7• ⁷But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety; (1 Tim. 4:7)

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1 Tim. 6:20• ²⁰O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge, (1 Tim. 6:20)

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Titus 1:14• ¹⁴not turning their minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth. (Titus 1:14)

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Titus 3:9• ⁹But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the law, shun; for they are unprofitable and vain. (Titus 3:9)

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2 Tim. 3:13• ¹³But wicked men and juggling impostors shall advance in evil, leading and being led astray. (2 Tim. 3:13)

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Ezra 10:10• ¹⁰And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, Ye have acted unfaithfully, and have taken foreign wives, to increase the trespass of Israel. (Ezra 10:10)

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Hos. 12:1• ¹Ephraim feedeth on wind, and pursueth after the east wind: all day long he multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt. (Hos. 12:1)

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1 Cor. 5:6• ⁶Your boasting is not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (1 Cor. 5:6)

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1 Cor. 15:33• ³³Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. (1 Cor. 15:33)

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2 Thess. 2:7‑8• ⁷For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only there is he who restrains now until he be gone,
⁸and then the lawless one shall be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus shall consume with the breath of his mouth, and shall annul by the appearing of his coming; (2 Thess. 2:7‑8)

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Titus 1:11• ¹¹who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not to be taught for the sake of base gain. (Titus 1:11)

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Heb. 12:15• ¹⁵watching lest there be any one who lacks the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it; (Heb. 12:15)

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2 Peter 2:2,18• ²and many shall follow their dissolute ways, through whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed.
¹⁸For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error, (2 Peter 2:2,18)

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Rev. 13:3,14• ³and one of his heads was as slain to death, and his wound of death had been healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast.
¹⁴And it deceives those that dwell upon the earth by reason of the signs which it was given to it to work before the beast, saying to those that dwell upon the earth to make an image to the beast, which has the wound of the sword, and lived. (Rev. 13:3,14)

• “Doubtful disputations,” or, as the Apostle here expresses it, “empty voices”—words or sounds without significance for the believer. It can never indeed be too often asserted that the best way to refute error is by the statement of the truth. (“Exposition of 2 Timothy: 2 Timothy 2:14-19” by E. Dennett)

• The word of those who fall into these babblings will eat as doth a canker, or, more exactly, spread as a gangrene. (article #86504)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But profane, vain babblings shun, for theyi will advance to greater impiety,

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i e. those who speak thus.

W. Kelly Translation

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But shun profane babblings, for they will advance unto greater ungodliness,