16But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
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But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. …
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-18)Having thus encouraged Timothy to suffer, he comes in the next place to direct him in his work. I. He must make it his business to edify those who were under his charge, to put them in remembrance of those things which they did already know; for this is the work of ministers; not to tell people that which they never knew before, but to put them in mind of that which they do know, charging them tha…
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