Verse 9

but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Tim 2:14 : 14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.
• 2 Tim 2:23 : 23 But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes.
• Titus 1:14 : 14 not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
• 2 Tim 2:16 : 16 But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,
• Job 15:3 : 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
• 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
• 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
• 1 Tim 1:3-7 : 3 As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine, 4 neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; [so do I now] . 5 But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned: 6 from which things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking; 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.
• 1 Tim 4:7 : 7 but refuse profane and old wives' fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness: