1 Timothy 6:20

Timothy is to guard the deposit entrusted to him and avoid godless chatter and the contradictions of so-called knowledge. The truth of the gospel is a treasure to be protected.

Cross-references · 27

• Col 2:8Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
• 2 Tim 2:16But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,
• 2 Tim 1:12–14For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
• 2 Tim 3:14–16But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
• Rom 3:2Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.
• Col 2:18Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
• 1 Tim 6:14that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;
• 2 Th 2:15So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.
• Titus 3:9but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
• 2 Th 1:4so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
• 1 Tim 1:6from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;
• 1 Tim 1:11according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
• 1 Cor 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
• 1 Tim 4:7But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
• Titus 1:9holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
• 2 Tim 2:1You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
• Rev 3:3Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
• Acts 17:18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
• Titus 1:14not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
• 1 Cor 1:19–23For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”
• Acts 17:21Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
• 1 Cor 2:6We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
• Rom 1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• 1 Tim 6:4–5he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
• Titus 1:4to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
• 1 Tim 6:11But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
• 1 Tim 1:4and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith —

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