1 Timothy 1:7 - The Scriptures 1998

⁷ wishing to be teachers of Torah, understanding neither what they say nor concerning what they strongly 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 leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into a ditch.”

Matthew 21:27

And they answered יהושע  and said, “We do not know.” And He said to them, “Neither do I say to you by what authority I do these.

Luke 2:46

And it came to be, after three days, that they found Him in the Set-apart Place, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

Acts 15:1

And certain men came down from Yehuḏ

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Galatians 3:2

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

Galatians 3:5

Is He, then, who is supplying the Spirit to you and working miracles among you, doing it by works of Torah, or by hearing of belief?

Galatians 4:21

Say to me, you who wish to be under Torah, do you not hear the Torah?

1 Timothy 6:4

he is puffed up, understanding none at all, but is sick about questionings and verbal battles from which come envy, strife, slander, wicked suspicions,

2 Timothy 3:7

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

James 3:1

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment.

2 Peter 2:12

But these, like natural unreasoning beasts, having been born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheme that which they do not know, shall be destroyed in their destruction,