1 Timothy 1:7

These men wanted to be teachers of the law but understood neither their own words nor the subjects they confidently asserted. It exposes the danger of confident ignorance in teaching.

Cross-references · 18

• Rom 1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• 2 Pet 2:12But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
• 1 Tim 6:4he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
• Gal 3:5He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
• Gal 5:3–4Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
• Gal 3:2I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
• Rom 2:19–21and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
• Titus 1:10–11For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
• 2 Tim 3:7always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
• Matt 15:14Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
• John 9:40–41Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
• Gal 4:21Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
• John 3:9–10Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”
• Jer 8:8–9“‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.
• Matt 23:16–24“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’
• Isa 29:13–14The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
• Acts 15:1Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”
• Matt 21:27They answered Jesus, and said, “We don’t know.” He also said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

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