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2 Timothy 2:16
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2 Timothy 2:16
16But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
16But shun profane and vaine bablings, for they will increase vnto more vngodlinesse.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Timothy 2:16
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To avoid, keep clear of, or refuse to associate with or practice.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Not sacred or consecrated; to treat holy things as common.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Empty, worthless, fruitless, false, or without effect.
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Talking idly; telling secrets.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Growth or addition in number, amount, strength, or fruitfulness; as a verb, to become or make greater.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A greater amount, number, or degree; in a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
ungodliness
Impiety or conduct contrary to God and godliness.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study9But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
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Open the full verse study20O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
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Open the full verse study14Of 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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Open the full verse study7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
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Open the full verse study14Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
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Open the full verse study1EPHRAIM feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
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Open the full verse study7But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
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Open the full verse study10And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
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Open the full verse study3And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
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Open the full verse study33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
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Open the full verse study6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
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Open the full verse study18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
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Open the full verse study2And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
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Open the full verse study13But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
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Open the full verse study15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
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Open the full verse study11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
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Open the full verse study14And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
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