Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

1 Timothy 1:7

Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

KJV

θέλοντες εἶναι νομοδιδάσκαλοι, μὴ νοοῦντες μήτε ἃ λέγουσιν μήτε περὶ τίνων διαβεβαιοῦνται.

Greek NT

volentes esse legis doctores, non intelligentes neque quæ loquuntur, neque de quibus affirmant.

Vulgate

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

ASV

Desiring to be teachers of the law: understanding neither the things they say, nor whereof they affirm.

Douay-Rheims

Open in reader with connections →

In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

διαβεβαιόομαι
diabebaioomai
verb · 2×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
θέλω
thelo
verb · 208×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μήτε
mete
conjunction · 34×
νοιέω
noieo
verb · 14×
νομοδιδάσκαλος
nomodidaskalos
noun · 3×
περί
peri
preposition · 335×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. Concerning Those Who Asked Him to Show Them a Sign from Heaven. And the Sadducees and Pharisees came, and tempting Him kept asking Him to show them a sign from heaven. Matthew 16:1 The Sadducees and Pharisees who disagreed with each other in regard to the most essential truths, — for the Pharisees champion the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, hoping that there will …
30. These considerations encourage the faithful, and distress the heretical, perceiving, as they do, their heresy overthrown thereby. Moreover, their further question, 'whether the Unoriginate be one or two ,' shows how false are their views, how treacherous and full of guile. Not for the Father's honour ask they this, but for the dishonour of the Word. Accordingly, should any …
2. But now let us see what Asterius the Sophist says, the retained pleader for the heresy. In imitation then of the Jews so far, he writes as follows; 'It is very plain that He has said, that He is in the Father and the Father again in Him, for this reason, that neither the word on which He was discoursing is, as He says, His own, but the Father's, nor the works belong to Him, …

Cross-references

  • 1Tim 6:4 — He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
  • 1Tim 6:4 — He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
  • 2Pet 2:12 — But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
  • 2Tim 3:7 — Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
  • Col 2:18 — Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
  • Gal 3:2 — This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
  • Gal 3:5 — He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
  • Gal 4:21 — Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
  • Gal 5:3 — For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
  • Jas 3:1 — My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
  • Job 38:2 — Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
  • John 9:40 — And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
  • Matt 15:14 — Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
  • Rom 1:22 — Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
  • Rom 2:19 — And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
  • Titus 1:10 — For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: