2 Timothy 2:16

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;…

But shun profane and vain babblings, - see the notes at 1Ti 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…

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…

Having thus encouraged Timothy to suffer, he comes in the next place to direct him in his work.

I. He must make it his business to edify those who were under his charge, to put them in remembrance of…

shun The word is the same as in Tit 3:9 where reasons are given for rendering it avoid. The present tense here and in 2Ti 2:14 are all the more forcible for the aorists which come in between. -Be ever…