1 Timothy 1:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;

1 Timothy 1:6 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Titus 1:10
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
2 Timothy 2:23-24
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. …
Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
1 Timothy 6:20-21
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: …
1 Timothy 5:15
For some are already turned aside after Satan.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-11)

Here the apostle instructs Timothy how to guard against the judaizing teachers, or others who mingled fables and endless genealogies with the gospel. He shows the use of the law, and the glory of the gospel. I. He shows the end and uses of the law: it is intended to promote love, for love is the fulfilling of the law, Rom. 13:10. 1. The end of the commandment is charity, or love, Rom. 13:8. The ma…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. From which--namely, from a pure heart, good conscience, and faith unfeigned, the well-spring of love. having swerved--literally, “having missed the mark (the ‘end’) to be aimed at.” It is translated, “erred,” 1Ti 6:21; 2Ti 2:18. Instead of aiming at and attaining the graces above named, they “have turned aside (1Ti 5:15; 2Ti 4:4; He 12:13) unto vain jangling”; literally, “vain talk,” about the…