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NASB | 2 Timothy 2:16 But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 2:16 But avoid all irreverent babble and godless chatter [with its profane, empty words], for it will lead to further ungodliness, |
Subject: Vain Babbling |
Bible Note: "Everyone must acknowledge, therefore, that Christian tradition had precedence, chronologically and even logically, over Christian Scripture; for there was a tradition of the church before there was ever a New Testament, or any individual book of the New Testament. By the time the materials of the oral tradition found their way into written form, they had passed through the life and experience of the church..." -- Jaroslav Pelikan, from Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture, p. 10 Respectfully, do you agree or disagree? Parable |