提摩太后书 2:16

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

總要遠避世俗的空談，因為這些必會引人進到更不敬虔的地步。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
但 要 远 避 世 俗 的 虚 谈 ， 因 为 这 等 人 必 进 到 更 不 敬 虔 的 地 步 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Continue teaching these things, warning people in God's presence not to argue about words. It does not help anyone, and it ruins those who listen. ¹⁵ Make every effort to give yourself to God as the kind of person he will approve. Be a worker who is not ashamed and who uses the true teaching in the right way. ¹⁶ Stay away from foolish, useless talk, because that will lead people further away from God. ¹⁷ Their evil teaching will spread like a sickness inside the body. Hymenaeus and Philetus are like that. ¹⁸ They have left the true teaching, saying that the rising from the dead has already taken place, and so they are destroying the faith of some people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shun: 2 Timothy 2:14, 1 Timothy 4:7, 1 Timothy 6:20, Titus 1:14, Titus 3:9

for: 2 Timothy 3:13, Ezra 10:10, Hosea 12:1, 1 Corinthians 5:6, 1 Corinthians 15:33, 2 Thessalonians 2:7, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, Titus 1:11, Hebrews 12:15, 2 Peter 2:2, 2 Peter 2:18, Revelation 13:3, Revelation 13:14

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:3 - deeper Leviticus 13:7 - General Leviticus 13:35 - General Ecclesiastes 9:18 - sinner Malachi 2:6 - law Matthew 16:6 - the leaven Acts 17:21 - spent Romans 6:19 - unto iniquity Romans 16:18 - by 1 Corinthians 3:12 - wood Colossians 2:4 - lest 1 Timothy 1:4 - to 2 Timothy 2:23 - General 2 Timothy 3:5 - from

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
So the sky, the earth, and all that filled them were finished.

Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God finished the work he had been doing, so he rested from all his work.

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life and also the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.

1 Samuel 15:22
But Samuel answered, "What pleases the Lord more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obedience to his voice? It is better to obey than to sacrifice. It is better to listen to God than to offer the fat of sheep.

1 Timothy 4:4
Everything God made is good, and nothing should be refused if it is accepted with thanks,

1 Timothy 6:17
Command those who are rich with things of this world not to be proud. Tell them to hope in God, not in their uncertain riches. God richly gives us everything to enjoy.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But shun profane and vain babblings,.... The ministry of false teachers is mere babbling; a voice, and nothing else, as the man said of his nightingale; a sound of words, but no solid matter in them; great swelling words of vanity, like large bubbles of water, look big, and make a great noise, but have nothing in them; contain nothing but vain, empty, idle, and trifling stuff; what is unprofitable and unedifying, yea, what is profane, contrary to the nature and perfections of God, and not agreeable to the doctrine which is according to godliness; and being palmed upon the Holy Scriptures, is a profanation of them. And all such wicked and empty prate, and babbling, is to be shunned, avoided, and discouraged, refused, and rejected; and, as much as can be, a stop should be put to it, both by ministers and hearers of the word.

For they will increase unto more ungodliness meaning either that such babblings, if used and encouraged, will grow more and more profane and wicked; or the persons that use them, the unruly and vain talkers, will grow more daring, bold; and impudent, will wax worse and worse, and from one error will proceed to another, for such seldom stop; and having abused one passage of Scripture, will go on to attack another, and will not cease, till they have wrested the whole Scripture to their own destruction, and that of others.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But shun profane and vain babblings, - see the notes at 1 Timothy 6:20.

For they will increase unto more ungodliness - Their tendency is to alienate the soul from God, and to lead to impiety. Such kinds of disputation are not merely a waste of time, they are productive of positive mischief. A man fond of contention in religious things is seldom one who has much love for the practical duties of piety, or any very deep sense of the distinction between right and wrong. You will not usually look for him in the place of prayer, nor can you expect his aid in the conversion of sinners, nor will you find that he has any very strict views of religious obligation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 16. Shun profane and vain babblings — This is the character he gives of the preaching of the false teachers. Whatever was not agreeable to the doctrine of truth was, in the sight of God, empty and profane babbling; engendering nothing but ungodliness, and daily increasing in that.