Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and contentions and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and fruitless.
2 Timothy 2:14
Remind [people] of these [things], solemnly urging [them] before the Lord not to dispute about words. [This is] in no way beneficial [and leads to] the ruin of the hearers.
2 Timothy 2:23
But avoid foolish and uninformed controversies, [because you] know that they produce quarrels.
Job 15:3
Should he argue in talk [that] is not profitable or [in] words with which he cannot do good?
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning food sacrificed to idols, we know that "we all have knowledge." Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have [the gift of] prophecy and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that [I can] remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
1 Timothy 1:3-7
Just as I urged you [when I] traveled to Macedonia, remain in Ephesus, so that you may instruct certain people not to teach other doctrine,
1 Timothy 4:7
But reject those {worthless myths told by elderly women}, and train yourself for godliness.
2 Timothy 2:16
But avoid pointless chatter, for it will progress to greater ungodliness,
Titus 1:14
not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of people who turn away from the truth.