2 Timothy 2:14

New American Bible - revised edition

Remind people of these things and charge them before God to stop disputing about words. This serves no useful purpose since it harms those who listen.

Cross References

Jeremiah 16:19

Lord, my strength, my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress! To you nations will come from the ends of the earth, and say, “Our ancestors inherited mere frauds, empty, worthless.”

Jeremiah 2:11

Does any other nation change its gods?— even though they are not gods at all! But my people have changed their glory for useless things.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, “Where is the Lord?” The experts in the law did not know me: the shepherds rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after useless idols.

Jeremiah 23:32

Yes, I am against the prophets who tell lying dreams—oracle of the Lord—those who lead my people astray by recounting their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them; they do this people no good at all—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:36

But “the burden of the Lord” you shall mention no more. For each of you, your own word becomes the burden so that you pervert the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.

Jeremiah 7:8

But look at you! You put your trust in deceptive words to your own loss!

Habakkuk 2:18

Of what use is the carved image, that its maker should carve it? Or the molten image, the lying oracle, that its very maker should trust in it, and make mute idols?

Matthew 16:26

What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life?

Acts 13:10

and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all that is right, full of every sort of deceit and fraud. Will you not stop twisting the straight paths of [the] Lord?

Acts 15:24

Since we have heard that some of our number [who went out] without any mandate from us have upset you with their teachings and disturbed your peace of mind,

Romans 14:1

Welcome anyone who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Galatians 1:7

(not that there is another). But there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ.

Ephesians 4:17

So I declare and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally, brothers, we earnestly ask and exhort you in the Lord Jesus that, as you received from us how you should conduct yourselves to please God—and as you are conducting yourselves—you do so even more.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

We instruct you, brothers, in the name of [our] Lord Jesus Christ, to shun any brother who conducts himself in a disorderly way and not according to the tradition they received from us.

1 Timothy 1:4

or to concern themselves with myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the plan of God that is to be received by faith.

1 Timothy 1:6

Some people have deviated from these and turned to meaningless talk,

1 Timothy 4:8

for, while physical training is of limited value, devotion is valuable in every respect, since it holds a promise of life both for the present and for the future.

1 Timothy 5:21

I charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to keep these rules without prejudice, doing nothing out of favoritism.

1 Timothy 6:13

I charge [you] before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate for the noble confession,

2 Timothy 1:6

For this reason, I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands.

2 Timothy 2:16

Avoid profane, idle talk, for such people will become more and more godless,

2 Timothy 2:23

Avoid foolish and ignorant debates, for you know that they breed quarrels.

2 Timothy 4:1

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingly power:

Titus 3:1

Remind them to be under the control of magistrates and authorities, to be obedient, to be open to every good enterprise.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teaching. It is good to have our hearts strengthened by grace and not by foods, which do not benefit those who live by them.

2 Peter 1:13

I think it right, as long as I am in this “tent,” to stir you up by a reminder,

1 Samuel 12:21

Do not turn aside to gods who are nothing, who cannot act and deliver. They are nothing.