1 Timothy 1:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,

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  • 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed -- in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil -- in their destruction shall be destroyed,
  • Rom 1:22 : 22 professing to be wise, they were made fools,
  • 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,
  • 2 Tim 3:7 : 7 always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,
  • Titus 1:10-11 : 10 for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision -- 11 whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.
  • Rom 2:19-21 : 19 and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness, 20 an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law. 21 Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach?
  • Gal 3:2 : 2 this only do I wish to learn from you -- by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?
  • Gal 3:5 : 5 He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you -- by works of law or by the hearing of faith `is it'?
  • Gal 4:21 : 21 Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?
  • Gal 5:3-4 : 3 and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law; 4 ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;
  • Isa 29:13-14 : 13 And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is -- A precept of men is taught! 14 Therefore, lo, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, A wonder, and a marvel, And perished hath the wisdom of its wise ones, And the understanding of its intelligent ones hideth itself.'
  • Jer 8:8-9 : 8 How do ye say, We `are' wise, And the law of Jehovah `is' with us? Surely, lo, falsely it hath wrought, The false pen of scribes. 9 Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they?
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'
  • Matt 23:16-24 : 16 `Wo to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary -- is debtor! 17 Fools and blind! for which `is' greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that is sanctifying the gold? 18 `And, whoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever may swear by the gift that is upon it -- is debtor! 19 Fools and blind! for which `is' greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift? 20 `He therefore who did swear by the altar, doth swear by it, and by all things on it; 21 and he who did swear by the sanctuary, doth swear by it, and by Him who is dwelling in it; 22 and he who did swear by the heaven, doth swear by the throne of God, and by Him who is sitting upon it. 23 `Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and did neglect the weightier things of the Law -- the judgment, and the kindness, and the faith; these it behoved `you' to do, and those not to neglect. 24 `Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.
  • John 3:9-9 : 9 Nicodemus answered and said to him, `How are these things able to happen?' 10 Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!
  • John 9:40-41 : 40 And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, `Are we also blind?' 41 Jesus said to them, `If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say -- We see, therefore doth your sin remain.
  • Acts 15:1 : 1 And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren -- `If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;'

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  • 6from which certain, having swerved, did turn aside to vain discourse,

  • Rom 2:18-20
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    18and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law,

    19and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

    20an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law.

  • 7always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,

  • 1 Tim 1:8-10
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    8and we have known that the law `is' good, if any one may use it lawfully;

    9having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers,

    10whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

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    3if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety,

    4he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

    5wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

  • Rom 10:2-3
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    2for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,

    3for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.

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    10for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --

    11whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

  • 10and these, as many things indeed as they have not known, they speak evil of; and as many things as naturally (as the irrational beasts) they understand, in these they are corrupted;

  • 14not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

  • 49but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.'

  • 13for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.

  • 9and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.

  • 22professing to be wise, they were made fools,

  • 14These things remind `them' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

  • 16God they profess to know, and in the works they deny `Him', being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.

  • 7What, then, shall we say? the law `is' sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

  • 21Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?

  • Jer 8:8-9
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    8How do ye say, We `are' wise, And the law of Jehovah `is' with us? Surely, lo, falsely it hath wrought, The false pen of scribes.

    9Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they?

  • 1Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

  • 4And I -- I said, `Surely these `are' poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.

  • 5Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.

  • 2and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth `him' to know;

  • 12and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed -- in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil -- in their destruction shall be destroyed,

  • 4nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --

  • 18for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,

  • 12for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what `are' the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

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    20Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

    21in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'

  • Jude 1:16-17
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    16These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;

    17and ye, beloved, remember ye the sayings spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:

  • 20where `is' the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

  • 7and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings, commands of men;

  • 4in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

  • 16and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

  • 17And a way of peace they did not know.

  • 16the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

  • 9What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,

  • 19these are those setting themselves apart, natural men, the Spirit not having.

  • 3for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers -- itching in the hearing,

  • 9but they shall not advance any further, for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also did become.

  • 13for not the hearers of the law `are' righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: --