1 Timothy 1:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ desiring to be teachers of the law without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make assertions.

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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 are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.”

Matthew 21:27

So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

Luke 2:46

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Acts 15:1

Then certain individuals came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Galatians 3:2

The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

Galatians 3:5

Well then, does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?

Galatians 4:21

Tell me, you who desire to be subject to the law, will you not listen to the law?

1 Timothy 6:4

is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words. From these come envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions,

2 Timothy 3:7

who are always studying yet never able to recognize truth.

James 3:1

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will face stricter judgment.

2 Peter 2:12

These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed, they also will be destroyed,