And Esdras the priest stood up, and said to them: You have transgressed, and taken strange wives, to add to the sins of Israel.
2 Timothy 2:16 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But shun profane and vain babblings: for they grow much towards ungodliness. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But avoid all empty (vain, useless, idle) talk, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness. American Standard Version (1901) But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness, Common English Bible Avoid their godless discussions, because they will lead many people into ungodly behavior, Catholic Public Domain Version But avoid profane or empty talk. For these things advance one greatly in impiety. English Standard Version 2016 But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, |
And Esdras the priest stood up, and said to them: You have transgressed, and taken strange wives, to add to the sins of Israel.
Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning heat: all the day long he multiplied lies and desolation: and he hath made a covenant with the Assyrians, and carried oil into Egypt.
Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?
Knowing this, that the law is not made for the just man, but for the unjust and disobedient, for the ungodly, and for sinners, for the wicked and defiled, for murderers of fathers, and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane novelties of words, and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called.
Of these things put them in mind, charging them before the Lord. Contend not in words, for it is to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
If any man therefore shall cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified and profitable to the Lord, prepared unto every good work.
But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and driving into error.
Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men, who turn themselves away from the truth.
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain.
Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder, and by it many be defiled.
For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness, those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:
And many shall follow their riotousnesses, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
And he seduced them that dwell on the earth, for the signs, which were given him to do in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make the image of the beast, which had the wound by the sword, and lived.
And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to death: and his death's wound was healed. And all the earth was in admiration after the beast.