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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 them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. (2 Tim. 2:14)

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1 Tim. 4:7• ⁷But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. (1 Tim. 4:7)

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1 Tim. 6:20• ²⁰O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: (1 Tim. 6:20)

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Titus 1:14• ¹⁴Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. (Titus 1:14)

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

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2 Tim. 3:13• ¹³But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. (2 Tim. 3:13)

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

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Hos. 12:1• ¹Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. (Hos. 12:1)

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1 Cor. 5:6• ⁶Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth 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 iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
⁸And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: (2 Thess. 2:7‑8)

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Titus 1:11• ¹¹Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. (Titus 1:11)

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Heb. 12:15• ¹⁵Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; (Heb. 12:15)

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2 Peter 2:2,18• ²And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
¹⁸For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. (2 Peter 2:2,18)

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Rev. 13:3,14• ³And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
¹⁴And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. (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,