Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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Bible References

Avoid

Titus 1:14
not giving heed to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
1 Timothy 1:3
As I urged thee, while going to Macedonia, remain in Ephesis, so that thou might command certain men not to teach something different,
1 Timothy 4:7
But reject the profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself to piety.
2 Timothy 2:23
But shun foolish and uneducated questions, knowing that they breed quarrels.

Unprofitable

Job 15:3
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now about the things sacrificed to idols. We know that all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
2 Timothy 2:14
Remind them of these things, solemnly testifying in the sight of the Lord, not to brawl verbally, to nothing useful, to the ruin of those who hear.

General references

2 Timothy 2:23
But shun foolish and uneducated questions, knowing that they breed quarrels.