King James Version (KJV)
2 Timothy 2:16
“But shun profane [and] vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.”
Verse in context — 2 Timothy 2
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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.
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Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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But shun profane [and] vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
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And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
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Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
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Paul’s final letter, urging faithfulness to the gospel.
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