2 Timothy 4:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off into myths and man-made fictions.

American Standard Version (1901)

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.

Common English Bible

They will turn their back on the truth and turn to myths.

Catholic Public Domain Version

and certainly, they will turn their hearing away from the truth, and they will be turned toward fables.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.

2 Timothy 4:4 Cross References

Proverbs 1:32

For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Isaiah 30:10

which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

Matthew 13:15

For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.

Acts 7:57

But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;

2 Thessalonians 2:11

And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:

1 Timothy 1:4

neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, the which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; so do I now.

1 Timothy 4:7

but refuse profane and old wives' fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness:

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto thee, turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

2 Timothy 1:15

This thou knowest, that all that are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

Titus 1:14

not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

Hebrews 13:25

Grace be with you all. Amen.

2 Peter 1:16

For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.