2 Timothy 2:16

New King James Version

But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.

Cross References

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge—

Titus 1:14

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

2 Timothy 2:14

Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers.

Hosea 12:1

“Ephraim feeds on the wind, And pursues the east wind; He daily increases lies and desolation. Also they make a covenant with the Assyrians, And oil is carried to Egypt.

Ezra 10:10

Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have transgressed and have taken pagan wives, adding to the guilt of Israel.

Revelation 13:3

And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.

2 Peter 2:18

For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.

2 Peter 2:2

And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

Hebrews 12:15

looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;

Titus 1:11

whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

1 Timothy 4:7

But reject profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise yourself toward godliness.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Revelation 13:14

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.

1 Timothy 1:9

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

2 Timothy 2:21

Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.