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Shun Worthless Talk. Be an Honorable, Useful Vessel Prepared For Good Works

16 But be shunning the profane[a] empty-chatterings. For they[b] will advance further in ungodliness, 17 and their talk[c] will have a spreading like gangrene— of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who missed-the-mark with regard to the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and are overturning[d] the faith of some.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 2:16 Or, godless, irreverent, worldly.
  2. 2 Timothy 2:16 That is, those who engage in this profane chattering.
  3. 2 Timothy 2:17 Or, word, message.
  4. 2 Timothy 2:18 Or, upsetting.

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