Titus 3:9

Webster's Bible (1833)

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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  • 2 Tim 2:14 : 14 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
  • 2 Tim 2:23 : 23 But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
  • Titus 1:14 : 14 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
  • 2 Tim 2:16 : 16 But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,
  • Job 15:3 : 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches with which he can do no good?
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 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 don't have love, I am nothing.
  • 1 Tim 1:3-7 : 3 As I exhorted you to stay at Ephesus when I was going into Macedonia, that you might charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine, 4 neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith-- 5 but the end of the charge is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith; 6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking; 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
  • 1 Tim 4:7 : 7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

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    22Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

    23But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

    24The Lord's servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,

  • 1 Tim 1:3-7
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    3As I exhorted you to stay at Ephesus when I was going into Macedonia, that you might charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

    4neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith--

    5but the end of the charge is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;

    6from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

    7desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

  • Titus 3:10
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    10Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;

  • 2 Tim 2:14-16
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    14Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

    15Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

    16But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

  • 1 Tim 6:3-5
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    3If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

    4he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

    5constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

  • Titus 3:8
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    8This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

  • Titus 1:13-14
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    13This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

    14not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

  • 1 Tim 6:20
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    20Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

  • 1 Tim 4:7-8
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    7But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

    8For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value for all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

  • Titus 3:14
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    14Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

  • Titus 1:9-10
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    9holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

    10For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

  • Heb 13:9
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    9Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

  • Job 15:3
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    3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches with which he can do no good?

  • 1 Tim 1:9-10
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    9as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

    10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

  • Titus 3:2-3
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    2to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

    3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

  • Rom 16:17
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    17Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

  • 2 Tim 3:7
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    7always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

  • 1 Tim 6:11
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    11But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

  • 1 Tim 4:15
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    15Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

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    5holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.

  • 2 Tim 3:14
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    14But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

  • 2 Tim 3:9
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    9But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

  • Col 2:22-23
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    22(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

    23Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

  • Eph 5:6
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    6Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

  • 2 Thess 3:11
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    11For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

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    5Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

  • Gal 5:26
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    26Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

  • 1 Tim 5:13
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    13Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

  • 2 Pet 3:16-17
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    16as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

    17You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

  • Rom 2:20
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    20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

  • 1 Sam 12:21
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    21and don't turn aside; for [then would you go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

  • Titus 1:16
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    16They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.