2 Timothy 4:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off into myths and man-made fictions.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.

Common English Bible

⁴ They will turn their back on the truth and turn to myths.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ 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

⁴ 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 waywardness kills the simple, and the complacency of fools destroys them;

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things; prophesy illusions;

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to listen and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears in order not to hear.

Matthew 13:15

For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they might not look with their eyes, and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.’

Acts 7:57

But they covered their ears, and with a loud shout all rushed together against him.

2 Thessalonians 2:11

For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false,

1 Timothy 1:4

and not to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies that promote speculations rather than the divine training that is known by faith.

1 Timothy 4:7

Have nothing to do with profane and foolish tales. Train yourself in godliness,

1 Timothy 6:20

Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge;

2 Timothy 1:15

You are aware that all who are in Asia have turned away from me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

Titus 1:14

not paying attention to Jewish myths or to commandments of those who reject the truth.

Hebrews 13:25

Grace be with all of you.

2 Peter 1:16

For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty.