Titus 3:9

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But foolishe questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and striuinges about the lawe, auoyde: for they are vnprofitable and vayne.

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  • 2 Tim 2:14 : 14 Of these thynges put them in remembraunce, testifie before the Lorde, that they striue not about wordes to no profite, but to the peruertyng of ye hearers.
  • 2 Tim 2:23 : 23 But foolishe & vnlearned questions put from thee, knowyng that they do but gender strife.
  • Titus 1:14 : 14 Not takyng heede to Iewes fables and comaundementes of men, turnyng from the trueth.
  • 2 Tim 2:16 : 16 But prophane voyces of vanitie passe ouer: For they wyll encrease vnto greater vngodlynesse.
  • Job 15:3 : 3 Shall he reproue with a worde that is nothing worth, & speake the thinges which can do no good?
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 As touching thinges offred vnto idols, we are sure yt we all haue knowledge. Knowledge maketh a man swell: but loue edifieth.
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 And though I coulde prophesie, and vnderstoode all secretes, and all knowledge: Yea, if I had all fayth, so that I coulde moue mountaynes out of their places, and haue not loue, I were nothyng.
  • 1 Tim 1:3-7 : 3 As I besought thee to abyde styll in Ephesus, when I departed into Macedonia so do that thou comaunde some that they teache no other doctrine: 4 Neither geue heede to fables and endlesse genealogies, whiche breede questions, more then godly edifying which is in fayth. 5 But the ende of the commaundement, is loue out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, & of fayth vnfaigned. 6 From the whiche thynges, some hauyng erred, haue tourned vnto vayne ianglyng: 7 Couetyng to be doctours of the lawe, not vnderstandyng what they speake, neither wherof they affirme.
  • 1 Tim 4:7 : 7 But cast away prophane & old wiues fables: Exercise thy selfe rather vnto godlynesse.

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    22Lustes of youth auoyde, but folowe ryghteousnesse, fayth, loue, peace, with them that call on the Lorde out of a pure heart.

    23But foolishe & vnlearned questions put from thee, knowyng that they do but gender strife.

    24And the seruaunt of the Lorde must not striue: but be gentle vnto all men, apt to teache, sufferyng euyll in mekenesse,

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    3As I besought thee to abyde styll in Ephesus, when I departed into Macedonia so do that thou comaunde some that they teache no other doctrine:

    4Neither geue heede to fables and endlesse genealogies, whiche breede questions, more then godly edifying which is in fayth.

    5But the ende of the commaundement, is loue out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, & of fayth vnfaigned.

    6From the whiche thynges, some hauyng erred, haue tourned vnto vayne ianglyng:

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    14Of these thynges put them in remembraunce, testifie before the Lorde, that they striue not about wordes to no profite, but to the peruertyng of ye hearers.

    15Studie to shewe thy selfe approued vnto God, a workman not to be ashamed, rightlie deuidyng the worde of trueth.

    16But prophane voyces of vanitie passe ouer: For they wyll encrease vnto greater vngodlynesse.

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    3Yf any man teache otherwyse, and consenteth not vnto the wholsome wordes of our Lorde Iesus Christe, and to the doctrine whiche is accordyng to godlynesse:

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    8This is a faythfull saying: And of these thynges I wyll that thou confirme, that they which haue beleued in God, myght be carefull to shewe foorth good workes. These thynges are good and profitable vnto men.

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    13This witnesse is true: wherfore rebuke them sharpely that they may be founde in the fayth,

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    7But cast away prophane & old wiues fables: Exercise thy selfe rather vnto godlynesse.

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    2To blaspheme no man, to be no fyghters, but gentle, shewyng all mekenesse vnto all men.

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