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 shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
• 1 Tim 6:20Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge;
• 2 Th 2:7–8For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
• Titus 1:14not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
• 2 Tim 2:14Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
• Hos 12:1Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
• Ezra 10:10Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.
• 1 Tim 4:7But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
• Rev 13:3One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast.
• 1 Cor 5:6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
• Heb 12:15looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
• 2 Pet 2:18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
• 2 Tim 3:13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• 1 Cor 15:33Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
• Titus 1:11whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
• 2 Pet 2:2Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
• Rev 13:14He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.

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