Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Unprofitable
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Bible References
Avoid
Titus 1:14
not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men turning away from the truth.
1 Timothy 1:3
As I exhorted you to remain in Ephesus, I going into Macedonia, in order that you may command certain ones not to teach heterodoxy,
1 Timothy 4:7
but reject the unsanctified and silly stories: but exercise yourself unto godliness.
2 Timothy 2:23
But reject foolish and undisciplinary questions, knowing that they gender strife.
Unprofitable
1 Corinthians 8:1
But concerning things offered to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but divine love builds up.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not divine love, I am nothing.
2 Timothy 2:14
Remember these things, testifying before God, that they shall not fight with words, profitable unto nothing, for the overturning of those who hear.
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2 Timothy 2:23
But reject foolish and undisciplinary questions, knowing that they gender strife.