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Selected Verse: 2 Timothy 2:16 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
2Ti 2:16 |
King James |
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. |
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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
shun--literally, "stand above," separate from, and superior to.
vain--opposed to "the truth" (Ti2 2:15).
babblings--with loud voice: opposed to the temperate "word" (Tit 3:9).
increase--Greek, advance"; literally, "strike forward": an image from pioneers cutting away all obstacles before an advancing army. They pretend progress; the only kind of progress they make is to a greater pitch of impiety.
more ungodliness--Greek, "a greater degree of impiety." |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
But shun profane and vain babblings, - see the notes at Ti1 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. |
Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Shun (περιίστασο)
Po. In Pastorals, here and Tit 3:9. Originally, to place round; to stand round. In the middle voice, to turn one's self about, as for the purpose of avoiding something: hence, avoid, shun. Often in Class., but in this sense only in later Greek.
Profane and vain babblings (βεβήλους κενοφωνίας)
For profane, see on Ti1 1:9. Vain is superfluous, being implied in babblings. For babblings, see on Ti1 6:20. Babble is a word of early origin, an imitative word, formed on the efforts of a young child to speak, and having its counterparts in many languages. It appears very early in English, as in Piers Plowman:
"And so I bablede on my bedes."
Vis. 2487.
Bacon:
"Who will open himselfe to a blab or a babler?"
Ess. vi
Shakespeare:
"Leave thy vain bibble babble."
Twelfth N. iv. 2.
They will increase (προκόψουσιν)
See on Rom 13:12, and see on Gal 1:14.
Ungodliness (ἀσεβείας)
The opposite of εὐσέβεια godliness, for which see on Ti1 2:2. In Pastorals, Tit 2:12. In Paul, Rom 1:18; Rom 11:26, cit. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
They - Who babble thus will grow worse and worse. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
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. |
9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.