If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness,
Parallel translations
- WEB If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
- KJV If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
- BSB If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching,
- NASB If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness,
- NLT Some people may contradict our teaching, but these are the wholesome teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. These teachings promote a godly life.
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Quick answer
Anyone who teaches a different doctrine and rejects the sound words of Jesus and godly teaching is in error. The Lord's words are the standard for true doctrine.
Overview
Paul confronts false teachers who depart from the healthy words of Christ and teaching that fosters godliness. Sound doctrine is measured by faithfulness to the words of our Lord Jesus and produces holy living, not mere speculation. This anchors the church's teaching in Christ himself and exposes any teaching that drifts from him.
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- 1 Tim 1:3As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
- Rom 16:17Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
- 1 Tim 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
- 2 Tim 4:3For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;
- 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.
- Titus 2:1–2But say the things which fit sound doctrine,
- 1 Th 4:8Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
- Titus 1:1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
- 1 Tim 1:6from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;
- 2 Tim 1:13Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
- 1 Tim 4:7–8But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
- Prov 15:4A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
- Gal 1:6–7I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;
- Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
- 1 Th 4:1–2Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
- Matt 22:21They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
- Titus 3:8This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
- Titus 2:11–14For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
- 2 Pet 1:3–7seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;
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