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Exhortations » Special » To avoid various forms of evil
O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,
But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and turn away from them.
Verse Concepts
But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the law, shun; for they are unprofitable and vain.
avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.
But profane, vain babblings shun, for they will advance to greater impiety,
But foolish and senseless questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions.
Vanity » Foolish questions, &c are
O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,
But profane, vain babblings shun, for they will advance to greater impiety,
Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the Lord not to have disputes of words, profitable for nothing, to the subversion of the hearers.
which things some having missed, have turned aside to vain discourse,
Vanity » Foolish questions are
O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,
But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the law, shun; for they are unprofitable and vain.
But profane, vain babblings shun, for they will advance to greater impiety,
Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the Lord not to have disputes of words, profitable for nothing, to the subversion of the hearers.
which things some having missed, have turned aside to vain discourse, desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say or concerning what they so strenuously affirm.