2 Timothy 2:16

But avoid profane chatter, ¹  because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness, ² 

Ezr 10:10; Ho 12:1; 1Co 5:6; 1Co 15:33; 2Th 2:7,8; 1Ti 4:7; 1Ti 6:20; 2Ti 2:14; 2Ti 3:13; Tit 1:11; Tit 1:14; Tit 3:9; Heb 12:15; 2Pe 2:2,18; Re 13:3,14

¹ sn Profane chatter was apparently a characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus (cf. 1 Tim 1:3-4; 4:7; 6:20).

² tn Grk “they [who engage in it] will progress even more in ungodliness.”