1 Timothy 1:7 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither the things they say, nor whereof they affirm.

1 Timothy 1:7 Cross References

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Matthew 21:27

And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

Luke 2:46

And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.

Acts 15:1

And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

Romans 1:22

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Galatians 3:2

This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Galatians 3:5

He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Galatians 4:21

Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

1 Timothy 6:4

he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

2 Timothy 3:7

ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

James 3:1

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as natural brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;