2 Timothy 2:16

Timothy must avoid irreverent, empty talk, for it leads people into greater ungodliness. Idle religious chatter corrupts rather than edifies.

Cross-references · 17

• Titus 3:9But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
• 1 Tim 6:20O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
• 2 Th 2:7–8For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
• Titus 1:14Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
• 2 Tim 2:14Of 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.
• Hos 12:1Ephraim 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.
• Ezra 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.
• 1 Tim 4:7But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
• Rev 13:3And 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.
• 1 Cor 5:6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
• Heb 12:15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
• 2 Pet 2:18For 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 Tim 3:13But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
• 1 Cor 15:33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
• Titus 1:11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
• 2 Pet 2:2And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
• Rev 13:14And 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.

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