But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,
But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.
not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.
Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.
And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.
One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast.
For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;
They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.
while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness;
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
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