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2 Timothy 2:16 (WEB)
But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

Fathers and councils · 5

Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.9Festal Letters
“Paul, for instance, bearing testimony to the same point, advises his disciple, saying, ‘Avoid profane conversations; for they increase unto more ungodliness, and their word takes hold as doth a canker, of whom are Hymenæus and Philetus.’” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 16, 17.
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Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.8On Virginity
“They “are taken captive by him at his will.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 16.
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 27
“…tongues, but even, as I now perceive, their hands too, itching for our words; who delight in profane babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called, and strifes about words, which tend to no profit; for so Paul, the Preacher and Establisher of the “Word cut short,” the disciple and teacher of the Fishermen,…” — editor's note: Ib. ii. 16.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.10Book I
“Accordingly, the blessed apostle very appropriately and urgently exhorts us “not to strive about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers, but to shun profane and vain babblings, for they increase unto more ungodliness, and their word will eat as doth a canker.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 14, 16, 17.
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Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 97
“Hear, therefore, how the apostle foresaw such things, and gave salutary admonition about avoiding them, when he said, “Shun profane novelties of words; for they increase unto much ungodliness, and their speech insinuates itself as doth a cancer.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 16, 17. Augustin translates κενοφωνίας (“babblings,” “empty utterances,” vaniloquia, Vulgate) as if it read καινοφωνίας, “novelties of words.”—Tr.
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