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But shun profane [and] vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane [and] vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself [rather] unto godliness.
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
¶ But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: [so do].
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
¶ Wherefore then [serveth] the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; [and it was] ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised [his] birthright.
¶ And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make [you that ye shall] neither [be] barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid.
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way.
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
¶ Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
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