1 Timothy 1:7 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁷ desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding either what they say or what they affirm.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ They are ambitious to be doctors of the Law (teachers of the Mosaic ritual), but they have no understanding either of the words and terms they use or of the subjects about which they make [such] dogmatic assertions.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

Common English Bible

⁷ They want to be teachers of Law without understanding either what they are saying or what they are talking about with such confidence.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ desiring to be teachers of the law, but understanding neither the things that they themselves are saying, nor what they are affirming about these things.

1 Timothy 1:7 Cross References

Matthew 15:14

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guides the blind, both will fall into a ditch."

Matthew 21:27

So they answered Jesus and said, "We do not know."And He said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

Luke 2:46

Now it came to pass that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them.

Acts 15:1

And certain men coming down from Judea were teaching the brothers, "If you are not circumcised in the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."

Romans 1:22

Asserting themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Galatians 3:2

This only do I wish to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Galatians 3:5

Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?-

Galatians 4:21

Tell me, you who wish to be under the law, do you not hear the law?

1 Timothy 6:4

he is puffed up, understanding nothing, but [is] morbidly concerned with disputes and word battles, from which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions,

2 Timothy 3:7

always learning and never being able to come to a full knowledge of the truth.

James 3:1

My brothers, let not many become teachers, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment.

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as unreasoning natural animals, having been born for capture and destruction, blaspheme at things which they are ignorant of, and shall be destroyed in their destruction,