Some have departed from these and have turned to meaningless talk.

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From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;

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They want to be teachers(A) of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.(B)

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Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

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20 Timothy, guard what has been entrusted(A) to your care. Turn away from godless chatter(B) and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge,

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20 O 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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Dealing With False Teachers

14 Keep reminding God’s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words;(A) it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen.

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14 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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16 Avoid godless chatter,(A) because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.

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16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

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But avoid(A) foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels(B) about the law,(C) because these are unprofitable and useless.(D)

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But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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