4 and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.
nor to turn their minds to fables and interminable genealogies, which bring questionings rather than [further] God's dispensation, which [is] in faith.
But they refused to hearken, and turned a rebellious shoulder, and made their ears heavy, that they should not hear.
But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety;
not turning [their] minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth.
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall cause them to perish.
O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,
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Commentary on 2 Timothy 4 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 4
In this chapter,
2Ti 4:1-8
Observe,
2Ti 4:9-15
Here are divers particular matters which Paul mentions to Timothy, now at the closing of the epistle.
2Ti 4:16-22
Here,