1 Timothy 1:7

Good News Translation

They want to be teachers of God's law, but they do not understand their own words or the matters about which they speak with so much confidence.

Cross References

Matthew 15:14

“Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch.”

Matthew 21:27

So they answered Jesus, “We don't know.” And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you, then, by what right I do these things.

Luke 2:46

On the third day they found him in the Temple, sitting with the Jewish teachers, listening to them and asking questions.

Acts 15:1

Some men came from Judea to Antioch and started teaching the believers, “You cannot be saved unless you are circumcised as the Law of Moses requires.”

Romans 1:22

They say they are wise, but they are fools;

Galatians 3:2

Tell me this one thing: did you receive God's Spirit by doing what the Law requires or by hearing the gospel and believing it?

Galatians 3:5

Does God give you the Spirit and work miracles among you because you do what the Law requires or because you hear the gospel and believe it?

Galatians 4:21

Let me ask those of you who want to be subject to the Law: do you not hear what the Law says?

1 Timothy 6:4

is swollen with pride and knows nothing. He has an unhealthy desire to argue and quarrel about words, and this brings on jealousy, disputes, insults, evil suspicions,

2 Timothy 3:7

women who are always trying to learn but who can never come to know the truth.

James 3:1

My friends, not many of you should become teachers. As you know, we teachers will be judged with greater strictness than others.

2 Peter 2:12

But these people act by instinct, like wild animals born to be captured and killed; they attack with insults anything they do not understand. They will be destroyed like wild animals,