2 Timothy 2:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,

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Referenced Verses

  • Titus 3:9 : 9 and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.
  • 1 Tim 4:7 : 7 and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,
  • 2 Tim 2:14 : 14 These things remind `them' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;
  • 2 Tim 2:16 : 16 and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,
  • 1 Tim 6:4-5 : 4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings, 5 wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;
  • 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --

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  • Titus 3:9-10
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    9and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.

    10A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,

  • 2 Tim 2:24-25
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    78%

    24and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

    25in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,

  • 1 Tim 6:3-5
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    76%

    3if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety,

    4he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

    5wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

  • 1 Tim 1:4
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    4nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --

  • 2 Tim 2:22
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    22and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

  • 2 Tim 2:14-16
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    14These things remind `them' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

    15be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

    16and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

  • 1 Tim 6:20
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    20O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

  • Prov 20:3
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    3An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

  • 1 Tim 4:7
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    7and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,

  • Prov 17:14
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    14The beginning of contention `is' a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

  • 1 Tim 1:6-7
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    6from which certain, having swerved, did turn aside to vain discourse,

    7willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    4Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him -- even thou.

    5Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

  • Rom 16:17
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    17And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

  • Titus 1:14
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    14not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

  • 1 Tim 6:11
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    11and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

  • 1 Pet 2:15
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    15because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men;

  • Jas 3:14
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    14and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

  • Prov 25:8
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    8Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?

  • Prov 15:1
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    1A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

  • Col 2:23
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    23which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body -- not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.

  • Titus 3:2-3
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    2of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

    3for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;

  • Gal 5:26
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    26let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!

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

  • 2 Pet 3:16-17
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    16as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.

    17Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness,

  • Prov 14:7
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    7Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.

  • 1 Pet 1:14
    66%

    14as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

  • 1 Cor 14:38
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    38and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;

  • Jas 4:1
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    1Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

  • Prov 19:3
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    3The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.

  • 2 Tim 2:4
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    4no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

  • Titus 2:9
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    9Servants -- to their own masters `are' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

  • Prov 19:27
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    27Cease, my son, to hear instruction -- To err from sayings of knowledge.

  • Phil 2:14
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    14All things do without murmurings and reasonings,

  • Prov 4:15
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    15Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.

  • Prov 9:6
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    6Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.

  • Jas 3:16
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    16for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter;

  • Prov 1:15
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    15My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

  • 2 Tim 3:14
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    14And thou -- be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn,

  • Prov 15:18
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    18A man of fury stirreth up contention, And the slow to anger appeaseth strife.