But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,
Be strengthened in grace, not as a permission to sloth, but as a command to shake off the flesh's sluggishness. Even the most gifted lose heart midway unless they are constantly aroused and reminded that their strength comes not from themselves but from Christ.
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Commenting on 2 Timothy 2:1-26
Charge your people to stop striving about words, for such quarrels destroy souls and lead hearers away from the great things of God. Those who contend over trifles rarely consider how useless these disputes are; they are not merely profitless but deeply harmful.
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Commenting on 2 Timothy 2:14-18
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; great swelling words of vanity, like large bubbles of water, look big, and make a great noise, but have nothing in them; contain nothing but vain, empty, idle, and...