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It does no good, but only ruins the people who listen. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/2_timothy/2-14.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/2_timothy/2-14.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/2_timothy/2-14.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_timothy/1.htm">2 Timothy</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_timothy/2.htm">Chapter 2</a> > Verse 14</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_timothy/2-13.htm" title="2 Timothy 2:13">◄</a> 2 Timothy 2:14 <a href="../2_timothy/2-15.htm" title="2 Timothy 2:15">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/2_timothy/2.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/2_timothy/2.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Remind your people of this, and give them a solemn warning in God's presence not to fight over words. It does no good, but only ruins the people who listen. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_timothy/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Remind them of this, and warn them before God that they are to avoid wrangling over words, which does no good but only ruins those who are listening.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/2_timothy/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Don't let anyone forget these things. And with God as your witness, you must warn them not to argue about words. These arguments don't help anyone. In fact, they ruin everyone who listens to them. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_timothy/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Remind people of these things and charge them before God to stop disputing about words. This serves no useful purpose since it harms those who listen.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/2_timothy/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Of these things put them in mind, charging them before the Lord. Contend not in words: for it is to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Of these things put them in mind, charging them before the Lord. Contend not in words: for it is to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.</p><p class="hdg">put.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_timothy/1-6.htm">2 Timothy 1:6</a> For which cause I admonish thee that thou stir up the grace of God which is in thee by the imposition of my hands.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_peter/1-13.htm">2 Peter 1:13</a> But I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance.</p><p class="hdg">charging.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_timothy/4-1.htm">2 Timothy 4:1</a> I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming and his kingdom:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/4-17.htm">Ephesians 4:17</a> This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_thessalonians/4-1.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:1</a> For the rest therefore, brethren, pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_thessalonians/3-6.htm">2 Thessalonians 3:6</a> And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they have received of us.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/5-21.htm">1 Timothy 5:21</a> I charge thee, before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by declining to either side.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/6-13.htm">1 Timothy 6:13</a> I charge thee before God who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate, a good confession:</p><p class="hdg">that.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_timothy/2-16.htm">2 Timothy 2:16,23</a> But shun profane and vain babblings: for they grow much towards ungodliness. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/14-1.htm">Romans 14:1</a> Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/1-4.htm">1 Timothy 1:4,6</a> Not to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which furnish questions rather than the edification of God which is in faith. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/6-4.htm">1 Timothy 6:4,5</a> He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../titus/3-9.htm">Titus 3:9-11</a> But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain. . . . </p><p class="hdg">to no.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/12-21.htm">1 Samuel 12:21</a> And turn not aside after vain things, which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/2-8.htm">Jeremiah 2:8,11</a> The priests did not say: Where is the Lord? and they that held the law knew me not, and the pastors transgressed against me: and the prophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/7-8.htm">Jeremiah 7:8</a> Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit you:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/16-19.htm">Jeremiah 16:19</a> O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/23-32.htm">Jeremiah 23:32</a> Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and by their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../habakkuk/2-18.htm">Habakkuk 2:18</a> What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/16-26.htm">Matthew 16:26</a> For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/4-8.htm">1 Timothy 4:8</a> For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/13-9.htm">Hebrews 13:9</a> Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.</p><p class="hdg">the subverting.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/23-36.htm">Jeremiah 23:36</a> And the burden of the Lord shall be mentioned no more, for every man's word shall be his burden: for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/13-10.htm">Acts 13:10</a> Said: O full of all guile and of all deceit, child of the devil, enemy of all justice, thou ceases not to pervert the right ways of the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/15-24.htm">Acts 15:24</a> Forasmuch as we have heard that some going out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no commandment:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../galatians/1-7.htm">Galatians 1:7</a> Which is not another: only there are some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../titus/3-11.htm">Titus 3:11</a> Knowing that he that is such an one is subverted and sinneth, being condemned by his own judgment.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_timothy/2.htm">The Lord's Approved Workman</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13</span>If we believe not, he continueth faithful, he cannot deny himself. <span class="reftext">14</span><span class="highl">Of these things put them in mind, charging them before the Lord. Contend not in words: for it is to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.</span> <span class="reftext">15</span>Carefully study to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_timothy/5-21.htm">1 Timothy 5:21</a></span><br />I charge thee, before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by declining to either side.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_timothy/6-4.htm">1 Timothy 6:4</a></span><br />He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_timothy/2-23.htm">2 Timothy 2:23</a></span><br />And avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they beget strifes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_timothy/4-1.htm">2 Timothy 4:1</a></span><br />I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming and his kingdom:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../titus/3-1.htm">Titus 3:1</a></span><br />Admonish them to be subject to princes and powers, to obey at a word, to be ready to every good work.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../titus/3-9.htm">Titus 3:9</a></span><br />But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law. 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