1 Timothy 1:7

Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

Desiring {G2309} to be {G1511} teachers of the law {G3547};{G3361} understanding {G3539} neither {G3383} what {G3739} they say {G3004}, nor {G3383} whereof {G4012}{G5101} they affirm {G1226}.

They want to be teachers of Torah, but they understand neither their own words nor the matters about which they make such emphatic pronouncements.

They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert.

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

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Cross-References

  • Romans 1:22 (8 votes)

    Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

  • 2 Peter 2:12 (7 votes)

    But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

  • 1 Timothy 6:4 (6 votes)

    He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

  • Galatians 3:5 (5 votes)

    He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

  • Romans 2:19 (4 votes)

    And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

  • Romans 2:21 (4 votes)

    Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

  • 2 Timothy 3:7 (4 votes)

    Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.