1 Timothy 1:6 Some have departed from these and have turned to meaningless talk.

◄ 1 Timothy 1:6 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Some have departed from these and have turned to meaningless talk.

English Standard Version
Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion,

New American Standard Bible
For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion,

King James Bible
From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Some have deviated from these and turned aside to fruitless discussion.

International Standard Version
Some people have left these qualities behind and have turned to fruitless discussion.

American Standard Version
from which things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking;

Douay-Rheims Bible
From which things some going astray, are turned aside unto vain babbling:

Darby Bible Translation
which things some having missed, have turned aside to vain discourse,

Young's Literal Translation
from which certain, having swerved, did turn aside to vain discourse,

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:5-11 Whatever tends to weaken love to God, or love to the brethren, tends to defeat the end of the commandment. The design of the gospel is answered, when sinners, through repentance towards God and faith in Jesus Christ, are brought to exercise Christian love. And as believers were righteous persons in God's appointed way, the law was not against them. But unless we are made righteous by faith in Christ, really repenting and forsaking sin, we are yet under the curse of the law, even according to the gospel of the blessed God, and are unfit to share the holy happiness of heaven.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. From which—namely, from a pure heart, good conscience, and faith unfeigned, the well-spring of love.

having swerved—literally, "having missed the mark (the 'end') to be aimed at." It is translated, "erred," 1Ti 6:21; 2Ti 2:18. Instead of aiming at and attaining the graces above named, they "have turned aside (1Ti 5:15; 2Ti 4:4; Heb 12:13) unto vain jangling"; literally, "vain talk," about the law and genealogies of angels (1Ti 1:7; Tit 3:9; 1:10); 1Ti 6:20, "vain babblings and oppositions." It is the greatest vanity when divine things are not truthfully discussed (Ro 1:21) [Bengel].