2 Timothy 2:16

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Ezra 10:10

Then Ezra, the priest, stood up and said to them: “Your apostasy in taking foreign women as wives has added to Israel’s guilt.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, the house of Israel, with deceit; Judah still wanders about with gods, and is faithful to holy ones.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be led astray: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not appropriate. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough?

1 Timothy 1:9

with the understanding that law is meant not for a righteous person but for the lawless and unruly, the godless and sinful, the unholy and profane, those who kill their fathers or mothers, murderers,

1 Timothy 4:7

Avoid profane and silly myths. Train yourself for devotion,

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid profane babbling and the absurdities of so-called knowledge.

2 Timothy 2:14

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.

2 Timothy 2:21

If anyone cleanses himself of these things, he will be a vessel for lofty use, dedicated, beneficial to the master of the house, ready for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:13

But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.

Titus 1:11

It is imperative to silence them, as they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what they should not.

Titus 1:14

instead of paying attention to Jewish myths and regulations of people who have repudiated the truth.

Titus 3:9

Avoid foolish arguments, genealogies, rivalries, and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and futile.

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one be deprived of the grace of God, that no bitter root spring up and cause trouble, through which many may become defiled,

2 Peter 2:18

For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from people who live in error.

2 Peter 2:2

Many will follow their licentious ways, and because of them the way of truth will be reviled.

Revelation 13:14

It deceived the inhabitants of the earth with the signs it was allowed to perform in the sight of the first beast, telling them to make an image for the beast who had been wounded by the sword and revived.

Revelation 13:3

I saw that one of its heads seemed to have been mortally wounded, but this mortal wound was healed. Fascinated, the whole world followed after the beast.