2 Timothy 2:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

Stay prophane, and vaine babblings: for they shall encrease vnto more vngodlinesse.

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  • Titus 3:9 : 9 But stay foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and brawlings about the Lawe: for they are vnprofitable and vaine.
  • 1 Tim 6:20 : 20 O Timotheus, keepe that which is committed vnto thee, and auoide prophane and vaine babblings, and oppositios of science falsely so called,
  • Ezra 10:10 : 10 And Ezra the Priest stoode vp, & said vnto them, Ye haue transgressed, & haue taken strange wiues, to increase the trespasse of Israel.
  • Hos 12:1 : 1 Ephraim is fed with the winde, and followeth after the East winde: hee increaseth daily lies and destruction, & they do make a couenant with Asshur, and oyle is caried into Egypt.
  • 2 Thess 2:7-8 : 7 For the mysterie of iniquitie doeth already worke: onely he which nowe withholdeth, shall let till he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that wicked man be reueiled, whome the Lorde shall consume with the Spirit of his mouth, and shall abolish with the brightnes of his comming,
  • 1 Tim 4:7 : 7 But cast away prophane, and olde wiues fables, and exercise thy selfe vnto godlinesse.
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 Take heede, that no man fall away from the grace of God: let no roote of bitternes spring vp and trouble you, lest thereby many be defiled.
  • 2 Pet 2:2 : 2 And many shall folow their destructions, by whom the way of trueth shalbe euil spoken of,
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For in speaking swelling wordes of vanitie, they beguile with wantonnesse through the lusts of the flesh them that were cleane escaped from them which are wrapped in errour,
  • Rev 13:3 : 3 And I sawe one of his heads as it were wounded to death, but his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondred and folowed the beast.
  • Rev 13:14 : 14 And deceiued them that dwell on the earth by the signes, which were permitted to him to doe in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make the image of the beast, which had the wound of a sword, and did liue.
  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Your reioycing is not good: knowe ye not that a litle leauen, leaueneth ye whole lumpe?
  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Be not deceiued: euill speakings corrupt good maners.
  • 2 Tim 2:14 : 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.
  • 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But the euill men and deceiuers, shall waxe worse and worse, deceiuing, and being deceiued.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 Whose mouthes must bee stopped, which subuert whole houses, teaching things, which they ought not, for filthie lucres sake.
  • Titus 1:14 : 14 And not taking heede to Iewish fables and commaundements of men, that turne away from the trueth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Tim 6:20-21
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    20O Timotheus, keepe that which is committed vnto thee, and auoide prophane and vaine babblings, and oppositios of science falsely so called,

    21Which while some professe, they haue erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee, Amen. The first Epistle to Timotheus, written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest citie of Phrygia Pacaciana.

  • 2 Tim 2:17
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    17And their worde shall fret as a canker: of which sort is Hymeneus and Philetus,

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6From the which things some haue erred, and haue turned vnto vaine iangling.

  • 2 Tim 2:14-15
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    14Of 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.

    15Studie to shewe thy selfe approued vnto God, a workeman that needeth not to be ashamed, diuiding the worde of trueth aright.

  • Titus 3:9
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    9But stay foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and brawlings about the Lawe: for they are vnprofitable and vaine.

  • 1 Tim 4:7
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    7But cast away prophane, and olde wiues fables, and exercise thy selfe vnto godlinesse.

  • 1 Tim 6:3-5
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    3If any man teach otherwise, and consenteth not to the wholesome wordes of our Lorde Iesus Christ, and to the doctrine, which is according to godlinesse,

    4He is puft vp & knoweth nothing, but doteth about questions & strife of words, whereof commeth enuie, strife, railings, euill surmisings,

    5Frowarde disputations of men of corrupt mindes & destitute of ye trueth, which thinke that gaine is godlines: from such separate thy selfe.

  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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    2And many shall folow their destructions, by whom the way of trueth shalbe euil spoken of,

    3And through couetousnes shall they with fained words make marchandise of you, whose condemnation long since resteth not, and their destruction slumbreth not.

  • 2 Pet 2:18
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    18For in speaking swelling wordes of vanitie, they beguile with wantonnesse through the lusts of the flesh them that were cleane escaped from them which are wrapped in errour,

  • 1 Tim 1:4
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    4Neither that they giue heede to fables and genealogies which are endles, which breede questions rather then godly edifying which is by fayth.

  • 2 Tim 2:23
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    23And put away foolish and vnlearned questions, knowing that they ingender strife.

  • 1 Tim 4:15
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    15These things exercise, and giue thy selfe vnto them, that it may be seene howe thou profitest among all men.

  • 2 Tim 3:5-7
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    5Hauing a shewe of godlinesse, but haue denied the power thereof: turne away therefore from such.

    6For of this sort are they which creepe into houses, and leade captiue simple women laden with sinnes, and led with diuers lustes,

    7Which women are euer learning, and are neuer able to come to the acknowledging of the trueth.

  • Eph 5:6
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    6Let no man deceiue you with vaine wordes: for, for such thinges commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of disobedience.

  • Titus 1:10-11
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    10For there are many disobedient & vaine talkers and deceiuers of mindes, chiefly they of the Circumcision,

    11Whose mouthes must bee stopped, which subuert whole houses, teaching things, which they ought not, for filthie lucres sake.

  • Titus 1:14-16
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    14And not taking heede to Iewish fables and commaundements of men, that turne away from the trueth.

    15Vnto the pure are all things pure, but vnto them that are defiled, and vnbeleeuing, is nothing pure, but euen their mindes and consciences are defiled.

    16They professe that they know God, but by works they deny him, and are abominable & disobedient, and vnto euery good worke reprobate.

  • 2 Tim 3:9
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    9But they shall preuaile no longer: for their madnesse shalbe euident vnto all men, as theirs also was.

  • Jude 1:10-11
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    10But these speake euill of those thinges, which they know not: & whatsoeuer things they know naturally, as beasts, which are without reason, in those things they corrupt them selues.

    11Wo be vnto them: for they haue followed the way of Cain, and are cast away by the deceit of Balaams wages, and perish in the gainsaying of Core.

  • Jude 1:18-19
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    18How that they told you that there should be mockers in ye last time, which should walke after their owne vngodly lustes.

    19These are they that separate them selues from other, naturall, hauing not the Spirit.

  • 2 Tim 4:4
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    4And shall turne their eares from the trueth, and shalbe giuen vnto fables.

  • 2 Pet 2:12
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    12But these, as naturall brute beasts, led with sensualitie and made to be taken, and destroyed, speake euill of those things which they know not, and shal perish through their owne corruption,

  • 1 Pet 2:1-2
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    1Wherefore, laying aside all maliciousnes, and all guile, and dissimulation, and enuie, and all euill speaking,

    2As newe borne babes desire that sincere milke of the woorde, that yee may growe thereby,

  • Titus 2:8
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    8And with the wholesome woorde, which can not be condemned, that hee which withstandeth, may be ashamed, hauing nothing concerning you to speake euill of.

  • Col 2:23
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    23Which thinges haue in deede a shewe of wisdome, in voluntarie religion and humblenesse of minde, and in not sparing the body, which are thinges of no valewe, sith they perteine to the filling of the flesh.

  • 2 Pet 2:10
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    10And chiefly them that walke after the flesh, in the lust of vncleannesse, and despise gouernement, which are bolde, and stand in their owne conceite, and feare not to speake euill of them that are in dignitie.

  • Col 2:4
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    4And this I say, lest any man shoulde beguile you with entising wordes:

  • Rom 16:17-18
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    17Now I beseech you brethren, marke them diligently which cause diuision and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye haue learned, and auoide them.

    18For they that are such, serue not the Lorde Iesus Christ, but their owne bellies, and with faire speech and flattering deceiue the heartes of the simple.

  • 1 Tim 6:11
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    11But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and followe after righteousnesse, godlines, faith, loue, patience, and meekenes.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4Wherein it seemeth to them strange, that yee runne not with them vnto the same excesse of riot: therefore speake they euill of you,

  • 2 Tim 3:13-14
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    13But the euill men and deceiuers, shall waxe worse and worse, deceiuing, and being deceiued.

    14But continue thou in the thinges which thou hast learned, and which are committed vnto thee, knowing of who thou hast learned them:

  • Jude 1:16
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    16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their owne lustes: Whose mouthes speake proud things, hauing mens persons in admiration, because of aduantage.

  • 2 Tim 2:21
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    21If any man therefore purge him selfe from these, he shalbe a vessell vnto honour, sanctified, and meete for the Lord, and prepared vnto euery good worke.

  • 2 Pet 2:14-15
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    14Hauing eyes full of adulterie, and that can not cease to sinne, beguiling vnstable soules: they haue heartes exercised with couetousnesse, they are the children of curse:

    15Which forsaking the right way, haue gone astray, folowing the way of Balaam, the sonne of Bosor, which loued the wages of vnrighteousnes.

  • 2 Pet 3:16
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    16As one, that in all his Epistles speaketh of these thinges: among the which some thinges are hard to be vnderstand, which they that are vnlearned and vnstable, wrest, as they do also other Scriptures vnto their owne destruction.