1 Timothy 6:20 And oh, my dear Timothy, guard the treasure you were given! Guard it with your life. Avoid the talk-show religion and the practiced confusion of the so-calle...

6:20 MSG

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The Message - And oh, my dear Timothy, guard the treasure you were given! Guard it with your life. Avoid the talk-show religion and the practiced confusion of the so-called experts. People caught up in a lot of talk can miss the whole point of faith. Overwhelming grace keep you!
新标点和合本 - 提摩太啊，你要保守所托付你的，躲避世俗的虚谈和那敌真道、似是而非的学问。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 提摩太啊，要持守所给你的托付。要躲避世俗的空谈和那假冒知识的矛盾言论。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 提摩太啊，要持守所给你的托付。要躲避世俗的空谈和那假冒知识的矛盾言论。
当代译本 - 提摩太啊，你要持守所托付给你的，避开世俗的空谈和那些违背真理、似是而非的学问。
圣经新译本 - 提摩太啊，你要保守所交托你的，避免世俗的空谈和冒称是知识的那种反调；
中文标准译本 - 哦，提摩太呀！你要保守那所受的托付，避开那些不敬神的空谈和假冒知识之名的反对论。
现代标点和合本 - 提摩太啊，你要保守所托付你的，躲避世俗的虚谈和那敌真道、似是而非的学问。
和合本（拼音版） - 提摩太啊，你要保守所托付你的，躲避世俗的虚谈和那敌真道、似是而非的学问。
New International Version - Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge,
New International Reader's Version - Timothy, guard what God has trusted you with. Turn away from godless chatter. Stay away from opposing ideas that are falsely called knowledge.
English Standard Version - O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”
New Living Translation - Timothy, guard what God has entrusted to you. Avoid godless, foolish discussions with those who oppose you with their so-called knowledge.
Christian Standard Bible - Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding irreverent and empty speech and contradictions from what is falsely called knowledge.
New American Standard Bible - Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called “knowledge”—
New King James Version - O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge—
Amplified Bible - O Timothy, guard and keep safe the deposit [of godly truth] entrusted to you, turn away from worldly and godless chatter [with its profane, empty words], and the contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge”—
American Standard Version - O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto thee, turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;
King James Version - O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
New English Translation - O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and absurdities of so-called “knowledge.”
World English Bible - Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
新標點和合本 - 提摩太啊，你要保守所託付你的，躲避世俗的虛談和那敵真道、似是而非的學問。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 提摩太啊，要持守所給你的託付。要躲避世俗的空談和那假冒知識的矛盾言論。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 提摩太啊，要持守所給你的託付。要躲避世俗的空談和那假冒知識的矛盾言論。
當代譯本 - 提摩太啊，你要持守所託付給你的，避開世俗的空談和那些違背真理、似是而非的學問。
聖經新譯本 - 提摩太啊，你要保守所交託你的，避免世俗的空談和冒稱是知識的那種反調；
呂振中譯本 - 提摩太啊，你要保守住所受的託付，要躲避凡俗的空談、和假稱為「知識」之對比論。
中文標準譯本 - 哦，提摩太呀！你要保守那所受的託付，避開那些不敬神的空談和假冒知識之名的反對論。
現代標點和合本 - 提摩太啊，你要保守所託付你的，躲避世俗的虛談和那敵真道、似是而非的學問。
文理和合譯本 - 提摩太乎、宜守所託、遠不經之空談、及偽智之抵禦、
文理委辦譯本 - 提摩太乎、當守所托之命、棄妄論浮詞、偽為智慧之辯、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 提摩太乎、爾當守所託付爾者、避妄論虛詞、及偽稱智慧之辨問、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 蒂茂德乎、所授於汝之託付、汝其謹守勿失。凡支離忘本之空談、似是而非之詭辯、皆汝所應深惡而痛絕也。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Timoteo, ¡cuida bien lo que se te ha confiado! Evita las discusiones profanas e inútiles, y los argumentos de la falsa ciencia.
현대인의 성경 - 디모데여, 그대는 맡은 일을 잘 실천하시오. 거짓된 지식에서 나오는 모독적인 무가치한 잡담과 변론을 피하시오.
Новый Русский Перевод - Тимофей, храни то, что тебе вверено. Не занимайся безбожным пустословием и спорами о том, что ложно называют знанием.
Восточный перевод - Тиметей, храни то, что тебе вверено. Не занимайся безбожным пустословием и спорами о том, что ложно называют знанием.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Тиметей, храни то, что тебе вверено. Не занимайся безбожным пустословием и спорами о том, что ложно называют знанием.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Тиметей, храни то, что тебе вверено. Не занимайся безбожным пустословием и спорами о том, что ложно называют знанием.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - O Timothée, garde intact ce qui t’a été confié. Evite les discours creux et les arguments de ce que l’on appelle à tort « la connaissance », car ils sont contraires à la foi.
リビングバイブル - テモテよ。神から託された任務を完全に果たしなさい。知識を鼻にかけ、無知をさらけ出しているような人と、無益な議論にふけることがないよう気をつけなさい。
Nestle Aland 28 - Ὦ Τιμόθεε, τὴν παραθήκην φύλαξον ἐκτρεπόμενος τὰς βεβήλους κενοφωνίας καὶ ἀντιθέσεις τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως,
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ὦ Τιμόθεε, τὴν παραθήκην φύλαξον, ἐκτρεπόμενος τὰς βεβήλους κενοφωνίας καὶ ἀντιθέσεις τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως,
Nova Versão Internacional - Timóteo, guarde o que foi confiado a você. Evite as conversas inúteis e profanas e as ideias contraditórias do que é falsamente chamado conhecimento;
Hoffnung für alle - Lieber Timotheus, bewahre sorgfältig, was Gott dir anvertraut hat! Halte dich fern von allem gottlosen Geschwätz und dem Gerede von Leuten, die eine angeblich so neue Erkenntnis verkünden und damit der rettenden Botschaft widersprechen.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ti-mô-thê con, hãy giữ những điều Chúa đã ủy thác cho con, tránh những lời phàm tục và những cuộc tranh luận về lý thuyết mạo xưng là “tri thức.”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ทิโมธีเอ๋ย จงพิทักษ์รักษาสิ่งที่ท่านได้รับมอบหมาย จงหลีกหนีจากการพูดคุยอันไร้สาระ และความคิดขัดแย้งที่สำคัญผิดว่าเป็นความรู้
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ทิโมธีเอ๋ย จงรักษาสิ่งที่ถูกมอบให้อยู่ในความดูแลของท่านไว้ให้ดี จงเลี่ยงจากการพูดที่ไร้คุณธรรม และการขัดแย้งในการโต้เถียงซึ่งเรียกกันอย่างผิดๆ ว่าเป็น “ความรู้”

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1 Timothy 6:11 - But you, Timothy, man of God: Run for your life from all this. Pursue a righteous life—a life of wonder, faith, love, steadiness, courtesy. Run hard and fast in the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to, the life you so fervently embraced in the presence of so many witnesses.
1 Corinthians 2:6 - We, of course, have plenty of wisdom to pass on to you once you get your feet on firm spiritual ground, but it’s not popular wisdom, the fashionable wisdom of high-priced experts that will be out-of-date in a year or so. God’s wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of his purposes. You don’t find it lying around on the surface. It’s not the latest message, but more like the oldest—what God determined as the way to bring out his best in us, long before we ever arrived on the scene. The experts of our day haven’t a clue about what this eternal plan is. If they had, they wouldn’t have killed the Master of the God-designed life on a cross. That’s why we have this Scripture text: No one’s ever seen or heard anything like this, Never so much as imagined anything quite like it— What God has arranged for those who love him. But you’ve seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you.
1 Corinthians 1:22 - While Jews clamor for miraculous demonstrations and Greeks go in for philosophical wisdom, we go right on proclaiming Christ, the Crucified. Jews treat this like an anti-miracle—and Greeks pass it off as absurd. But to us who are personally called by God himself—both Jews and Greeks—Christ is God’s ultimate miracle and wisdom all wrapped up in one. Human wisdom is so cheap, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God. Human strength can’t begin to compete with God’s “weakness.”
2 Timothy 2:1 - So, my son, throw yourself into this work for Christ. Pass on what you heard from me—the whole congregation saying Amen!—to reliable leaders who are competent to teach others. When the going gets rough, take it on the chin with the rest of us, the way Jesus did. A soldier on duty doesn’t get caught up in making deals at the marketplace. He concentrates on carrying out orders. An athlete who refuses to play by the rules will never get anywhere. It’s the diligent farmer who gets the produce. Think it over. God will make it all plain.
2 Thessalonians 2:15 - So, friends, take a firm stand, feet on the ground and head high. Keep a tight grip on what you were taught, whether in personal conversation or by our letter. May Jesus himself and God our Father, who reached out in love and surprised you with gifts of unending help and confidence, put a fresh heart in you, invigorate your work, enliven your speech.
Colossians 2:18 - Don’t tolerate people who try to run your life, ordering you to bow and scrape, insisting that you join their obsession with angels and that you seek out visions. They’re a lot of hot air, that’s all they are. They’re completely out of touch with the source of life, Christ, who puts us together in one piece, whose very breath and blood flow through us. He is the Head and we are the body. We can grow up healthy in God only as he nourishes us.
2 Timothy 1:13 - So keep at your work, this faith and love rooted in Christ, exactly as I set it out for you. It’s as sound as the day you first heard it from me. Guard this precious thing placed in your custody by the Holy Spirit who works in us.
Romans 3:2 - First, there’s the matter of being put in charge of writing down and caring for God’s revelation, these Holy Scriptures. So, what if, in the course of doing that, some of those Jews abandoned their post? God didn’t abandon them. Do you think their faithlessness cancels out his faithfulness? Not on your life! Depend on it: God keeps his word even when the whole world is lying through its teeth. Scripture says the same: Your words stand fast and true; Rejection doesn’t faze you. But if our wrongdoing only underlines and confirms God’s rightdoing, shouldn’t we be commended for helping out? Since our lies don’t even make a dent in his truth, isn’t it wrong of God to back us to the wall and hold us to our word? These questions come up. The answer to such questions is no, a most emphatic No! How else would things ever get straightened out if God didn’t do the straightening?
2 Timothy 3:14 - But don’t let it faze you. Stick with what you learned and believed, sure of the integrity of your teachers—why, you took in the sacred Scriptures with your mother’s milk! There’s nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another—showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God’s way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us.
Colossians 2:8 - Watch out for people who try to dazzle you with big words and intellectual double-talk. They want to drag you off into endless arguments that never amount to anything. They spread their ideas through the empty traditions of human beings and the empty superstitions of spirit beings. But that’s not the way of Christ. Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don’t need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him. When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything.

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The Message - And oh, my dear Timothy, guard the treasure you were given! Guard it with your life. Avoid the talk-show religion and the practiced confusion of the so-called experts. People caught up in a lot of talk can miss the whole point of faith. Overwhelming grace keep you!
新标点和合本 - 提摩太啊，你要保守所托付你的，躲避世俗的虚谈和那敌真道、似是而非的学问。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 提摩太啊，要持守所给你的托付。要躲避世俗的空谈和那假冒知识的矛盾言论。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 提摩太啊，要持守所给你的托付。要躲避世俗的空谈和那假冒知识的矛盾言论。
当代译本 - 提摩太啊，你要持守所托付给你的，避开世俗的空谈和那些违背真理、似是而非的学问。
圣经新译本 - 提摩太啊，你要保守所交托你的，避免世俗的空谈和冒称是知识的那种反调；
中文标准译本 - 哦，提摩太呀！你要保守那所受的托付，避开那些不敬神的空谈和假冒知识之名的反对论。
现代标点和合本 - 提摩太啊，你要保守所托付你的，躲避世俗的虚谈和那敌真道、似是而非的学问。
和合本（拼音版） - 提摩太啊，你要保守所托付你的，躲避世俗的虚谈和那敌真道、似是而非的学问。
New International Version - Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge,
New International Reader's Version - Timothy, guard what God has trusted you with. Turn away from godless chatter. Stay away from opposing ideas that are falsely called knowledge.
English Standard Version - O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”
New Living Translation - Timothy, guard what God has entrusted to you. Avoid godless, foolish discussions with those who oppose you with their so-called knowledge.
Christian Standard Bible - Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding irreverent and empty speech and contradictions from what is falsely called knowledge.
New American Standard Bible - Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called “knowledge”—
New King James Version - O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge—
Amplified Bible - O Timothy, guard and keep safe the deposit [of godly truth] entrusted to you, turn away from worldly and godless chatter [with its profane, empty words], and the contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge”—
American Standard Version - O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto thee, turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;
King James Version - O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
New English Translation - O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and absurdities of so-called “knowledge.”
World English Bible - Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
新標點和合本 - 提摩太啊，你要保守所託付你的，躲避世俗的虛談和那敵真道、似是而非的學問。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 提摩太啊，要持守所給你的託付。要躲避世俗的空談和那假冒知識的矛盾言論。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 提摩太啊，要持守所給你的託付。要躲避世俗的空談和那假冒知識的矛盾言論。
當代譯本 - 提摩太啊，你要持守所託付給你的，避開世俗的空談和那些違背真理、似是而非的學問。
聖經新譯本 - 提摩太啊，你要保守所交託你的，避免世俗的空談和冒稱是知識的那種反調；
呂振中譯本 - 提摩太啊，你要保守住所受的託付，要躲避凡俗的空談、和假稱為「知識」之對比論。
中文標準譯本 - 哦，提摩太呀！你要保守那所受的託付，避開那些不敬神的空談和假冒知識之名的反對論。
現代標點和合本 - 提摩太啊，你要保守所託付你的，躲避世俗的虛談和那敵真道、似是而非的學問。
文理和合譯本 - 提摩太乎、宜守所託、遠不經之空談、及偽智之抵禦、
文理委辦譯本 - 提摩太乎、當守所托之命、棄妄論浮詞、偽為智慧之辯、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 提摩太乎、爾當守所託付爾者、避妄論虛詞、及偽稱智慧之辨問、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 蒂茂德乎、所授於汝之託付、汝其謹守勿失。凡支離忘本之空談、似是而非之詭辯、皆汝所應深惡而痛絕也。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Timoteo, ¡cuida bien lo que se te ha confiado! Evita las discusiones profanas e inútiles, y los argumentos de la falsa ciencia.
현대인의 성경 - 디모데여, 그대는 맡은 일을 잘 실천하시오. 거짓된 지식에서 나오는 모독적인 무가치한 잡담과 변론을 피하시오.
Новый Русский Перевод - Тимофей, храни то, что тебе вверено. Не занимайся безбожным пустословием и спорами о том, что ложно называют знанием.
Восточный перевод - Тиметей, храни то, что тебе вверено. Не занимайся безбожным пустословием и спорами о том, что ложно называют знанием.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Тиметей, храни то, что тебе вверено. Не занимайся безбожным пустословием и спорами о том, что ложно называют знанием.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Тиметей, храни то, что тебе вверено. Не занимайся безбожным пустословием и спорами о том, что ложно называют знанием.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - O Timothée, garde intact ce qui t’a été confié. Evite les discours creux et les arguments de ce que l’on appelle à tort « la connaissance », car ils sont contraires à la foi.
リビングバイブル - テモテよ。神から託された任務を完全に果たしなさい。知識を鼻にかけ、無知をさらけ出しているような人と、無益な議論にふけることがないよう気をつけなさい。
Nestle Aland 28 - Ὦ Τιμόθεε, τὴν παραθήκην φύλαξον ἐκτρεπόμενος τὰς βεβήλους κενοφωνίας καὶ ἀντιθέσεις τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως,
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ὦ Τιμόθεε, τὴν παραθήκην φύλαξον, ἐκτρεπόμενος τὰς βεβήλους κενοφωνίας καὶ ἀντιθέσεις τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως,
Nova Versão Internacional - Timóteo, guarde o que foi confiado a você. Evite as conversas inúteis e profanas e as ideias contraditórias do que é falsamente chamado conhecimento;
Hoffnung für alle - Lieber Timotheus, bewahre sorgfältig, was Gott dir anvertraut hat! Halte dich fern von allem gottlosen Geschwätz und dem Gerede von Leuten, die eine angeblich so neue Erkenntnis verkünden und damit der rettenden Botschaft widersprechen.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ti-mô-thê con, hãy giữ những điều Chúa đã ủy thác cho con, tránh những lời phàm tục và những cuộc tranh luận về lý thuyết mạo xưng là “tri thức.”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ทิโมธีเอ๋ย จงพิทักษ์รักษาสิ่งที่ท่านได้รับมอบหมาย จงหลีกหนีจากการพูดคุยอันไร้สาระ และความคิดขัดแย้งที่สำคัญผิดว่าเป็นความรู้
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ทิโมธีเอ๋ย จงรักษาสิ่งที่ถูกมอบให้อยู่ในความดูแลของท่านไว้ให้ดี จงเลี่ยงจากการพูดที่ไร้คุณธรรม และการขัดแย้งในการโต้เถียงซึ่งเรียกกันอย่างผิดๆ ว่าเป็น “ความรู้”

1 Timothy 6:11 - But you, Timothy, man of God: Run for your life from all this. Pursue a righteous life—a life of wonder, faith, love, steadiness, courtesy. Run hard and fast in the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to, the life you so fervently embraced in the presence of so many witnesses.
1 Corinthians 2:6 - We, of course, have plenty of wisdom to pass on to you once you get your feet on firm spiritual ground, but it’s not popular wisdom, the fashionable wisdom of high-priced experts that will be out-of-date in a year or so. God’s wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of his purposes. You don’t find it lying around on the surface. It’s not the latest message, but more like the oldest—what God determined as the way to bring out his best in us, long before we ever arrived on the scene. The experts of our day haven’t a clue about what this eternal plan is. If they had, they wouldn’t have killed the Master of the God-designed life on a cross. That’s why we have this Scripture text: No one’s ever seen or heard anything like this, Never so much as imagined anything quite like it— What God has arranged for those who love him. But you’ve seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you.
1 Corinthians 1:22 - While Jews clamor for miraculous demonstrations and Greeks go in for philosophical wisdom, we go right on proclaiming Christ, the Crucified. Jews treat this like an anti-miracle—and Greeks pass it off as absurd. But to us who are personally called by God himself—both Jews and Greeks—Christ is God’s ultimate miracle and wisdom all wrapped up in one. Human wisdom is so cheap, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God. Human strength can’t begin to compete with God’s “weakness.”
2 Timothy 2:1 - So, my son, throw yourself into this work for Christ. Pass on what you heard from me—the whole congregation saying Amen!—to reliable leaders who are competent to teach others. When the going gets rough, take it on the chin with the rest of us, the way Jesus did. A soldier on duty doesn’t get caught up in making deals at the marketplace. He concentrates on carrying out orders. An athlete who refuses to play by the rules will never get anywhere. It’s the diligent farmer who gets the produce. Think it over. God will make it all plain.
2 Thessalonians 2:15 - So, friends, take a firm stand, feet on the ground and head high. Keep a tight grip on what you were taught, whether in personal conversation or by our letter. May Jesus himself and God our Father, who reached out in love and surprised you with gifts of unending help and confidence, put a fresh heart in you, invigorate your work, enliven your speech.
Colossians 2:18 - Don’t tolerate people who try to run your life, ordering you to bow and scrape, insisting that you join their obsession with angels and that you seek out visions. They’re a lot of hot air, that’s all they are. They’re completely out of touch with the source of life, Christ, who puts us together in one piece, whose very breath and blood flow through us. He is the Head and we are the body. We can grow up healthy in God only as he nourishes us.
2 Timothy 1:13 - So keep at your work, this faith and love rooted in Christ, exactly as I set it out for you. It’s as sound as the day you first heard it from me. Guard this precious thing placed in your custody by the Holy Spirit who works in us.
Romans 3:2 - First, there’s the matter of being put in charge of writing down and caring for God’s revelation, these Holy Scriptures. So, what if, in the course of doing that, some of those Jews abandoned their post? God didn’t abandon them. Do you think their faithlessness cancels out his faithfulness? Not on your life! Depend on it: God keeps his word even when the whole world is lying through its teeth. Scripture says the same: Your words stand fast and true; Rejection doesn’t faze you. But if our wrongdoing only underlines and confirms God’s rightdoing, shouldn’t we be commended for helping out? Since our lies don’t even make a dent in his truth, isn’t it wrong of God to back us to the wall and hold us to our word? These questions come up. The answer to such questions is no, a most emphatic No! How else would things ever get straightened out if God didn’t do the straightening?
2 Timothy 3:14 - But don’t let it faze you. Stick with what you learned and believed, sure of the integrity of your teachers—why, you took in the sacred Scriptures with your mother’s milk! There’s nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another—showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God’s way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us.
Colossians 2:8 - Watch out for people who try to dazzle you with big words and intellectual double-talk. They want to drag you off into endless arguments that never amount to anything. They spread their ideas through the empty traditions of human beings and the empty superstitions of spirit beings. But that’s not the way of Christ. Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don’t need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him. When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything.