2 Timothy 2:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ But avoid all empty (vain, useless, idle) talk, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Avoid their godless discussions, because they will lead many people into ungodly behavior,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ But avoid profane or empty talk. For these things advance one greatly in impiety.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ But shun profane and vain babblings: for they grow much towards ungodliness.

2 Timothy 2:16 Cross References

Ezra 10:10

And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have trespassed, and have married strange women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Be not deceived: Evil company doth corrupt good manners.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

1 Timothy 1:9

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

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 2:14

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

2 Timothy 2:21

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, meet for the master's use, prepared unto every good work.

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Titus 1:11

whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

Titus 1:14

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

Titus 3:9

but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Hebrews 12:15

looking carefully lest there be any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

2 Peter 2:2

And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.

Revelation 13:14

And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, who hath the stroke of the sword, and lived.

Revelation 13:3

And I saw one of his heads as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast;