2 TIMOTHY 2:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.”
Avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness — the prohibition against bebēlos lalia (irreverent chatter) derives from its trajectory: such speech produces prokopē (progress) toward asebeia (ungodliness). False speech corrupts listeners progressively.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 2:16
For they will not stop there. For when anything new has been introduced, it is ever producing innovations, and the error of him who has once left the safe harbor is infinite, and never stops. “For they will increase unto more ungodliness,” he says,
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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