2 Timothy 2:16

Contextual Overview

¹⁴Remind the believers of these things, charging them before God to avoid quarreling over words, which is in no way profitable and leads its listeners to ruin. ¹⁴ Don't let anyone forget these things. And with God as your witness, you must warn them not to argue about words. These arguments don't help anyone. In fact, they ruin everyone who listens to them. ¹⁴ Keep reminding people of this, and charge them solemnly before the Lord not to engage in word-battles. They accomplish nothing useful and are a catastrophe for the hearers! ¹⁴ Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the Lord not to have disputes of words, profitable for nothing, to the subversion of the hearers. ¹⁴ Keep on telling everyone these truths. And warn them before God not to argue about words. Such arguments don't help anyone, and they ruin those who listen to them. ¹⁴ Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear. ¹⁴ Put these things before them, giving them orders in the name of the Lord to keep themselves from fighting about words, which is of no profit, only causing error in their hearers. ¹⁴ Of these things put them in remembrance, and protest before the Lord, that they striue not about wordes, which is to no profit, but to the peruerting of the hearers. ¹⁴ You should keep these things in remembrance, as a testimony before our LORD, that the faithful should not argue over words in which there is no profit but which are destruction to those who listen to them. ¹⁴ Remind 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.

Bible Verse Review
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shun: 2 Timothy 2:14, 1 Timothy 4:7, 1 Timothy 6:20, Titus 1:14, Titus 3:9

for: 2 Timothy 3:13, Ezra 10:10, Hosea 12:1, 1 Corinthians 5:6, 1 Corinthians 15:33, 2 Thessalonians 2:7, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, Titus 1:11, Hebrews 12:15, 2 Peter 2:2, 2 Peter 2:18, Revelation 13:3, Revelation 13:14

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:3 - deeper Leviticus 13:7 - General Leviticus 13:35 - General Ecclesiastes 9:18 - sinner Malachi 2:6 - law Matthew 16:6 - the leaven Acts 17:21 - spent Romans 6:19 - unto iniquity Romans 16:18 - by 1 Corinthians 3:12 - wood Colossians 2:4 - lest 1 Timothy 1:4 - to 2 Timothy 2:23 - General 2 Timothy 3:5 - from

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
So the heavens and the earth and everything else were created.

Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, along with everything in them.

Genesis 2:1
And the heavens and the earth and all their host were finished.

Genesis 2:1
So the earth, the sky, and everything in them were finished.

Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Genesis 2:1
And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete.

Genesis 2:1
The heauens also & the earth were finisshed, & all the hoast of them.

Genesis 2:1
THUS the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Genesis 2:1
And so the whole universe was completed.

Genesis 2:1
And the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But shun profane and vain babblings,.... The ministry of false teachers is mere babbling; a voice, and nothing else, as the man said of his nightingale; a sound of words, but no solid matter in them; great swelling words of vanity, like large bubbles of water, look big, and make a great noise, but have nothing in them; contain nothing but vain, empty, idle, and trifling stuff; what is unprofitable and unedifying, yea, what is profane, contrary to the nature and perfections of God, and not agreeable to the doctrine which is according to godliness; and being palmed upon the Holy Scriptures, is a profanation of them. And all such wicked and empty prate, and babbling, is to be shunned, avoided, and discouraged, refused, and rejected; and, as much as can be, a stop should be put to it, both by ministers and hearers of the word.

For they will increase unto more ungodliness meaning either that such babblings, if used and encouraged, will grow more and more profane and wicked; or the persons that use them, the unruly and vain talkers, will grow more daring, bold; and impudent, will wax worse and worse, and from one error will proceed to another, for such seldom stop; and having abused one passage of Scripture, will go on to attack another, and will not cease, till they have wrested the whole Scripture to their own destruction, and that of others.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But shun profane and vain babblings, - see the notes at 1 Timothy 6:20.

For they will increase unto more ungodliness - Their tendency is to alienate the soul from God, and to lead to impiety. Such kinds of disputation are not merely a waste of time, they are productive of positive mischief. A man fond of contention in religious things is seldom one who has much love for the practical duties of piety, or any very deep sense of the distinction between right and wrong. You will not usually look for him in the place of prayer, nor can you expect his aid in the conversion of sinners, nor will you find that he has any very strict views of religious obligation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 16. Shun profane and vain babblings — This is the character he gives of the preaching of the false teachers. Whatever was not agreeable to the doctrine of truth was, in the sight of God, empty and profane babbling; engendering nothing but ungodliness, and daily increasing in that.