And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.

and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.

and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to myths.

and certainly, they will turn their hearing away from the truth, and they will be turned toward fables.

They will turn a deaf ear to the truth, and give their attention to legends instead.

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth - That is, the people themselves will turn away from the truth. It does not mean that the teachers would turn them away by the influence of their instructions.
And shall be turned unto fables; - See the notes at 1-Timothy 1:4.

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth - The truth strips them of their vices, sacrifices their idols, darts its lightnings against their easily besetting sins, and absolutely requires a conformity to a crucified Christ; therefore they turn their ears away from it.
And shall be turned unto fables - Believe any kind of stuff and nonsense; for, as one has justly observed, "Those who reject the truth are abandoned by the just judgment of God to credit the most degrading nonsense." This is remarkably the case with most deists; their creed often exhibits what is grossly absurd.

And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto (a) fables.
(a) To false and unprofitable doctrines which the world is now so bewitched with, that it would rather have the open light of the truth completely put out, than it would come out of darkness.

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth,.... The solid truths of the Gospel, not being able to bear the hearing of them:
and shall be turned unto fables; things idle, trifling, useless, and, unprofitable; and which are no better than old wives' fables; some respect may be had either to Jewish fables, or to the miraculous mythologies of the Gentiles, or of the Gnostics, and others: but in general, it includes everything that is vain, empty, and senseless; and this is to be considered as a just judgment upon them; that since they like not to retain the knowledge of the truth, but turn away their ears from it, God gives them up to a reprobate mind, a mind void of sense and judgment, to attend to things idle and fabulous.

The ear brooks not what is opposed to the man's lusts.
turned--Greek, "turned aside" (1-Timothy 1:6). It is a righteous retribution, that when men turn away from the truth, they should be turned to fables (Jeremiah 2:19).
fables-- (1-Timothy 1:4).