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 attending to Jewish fables, and injunctions of men, who have turned away from the truth.
1 Timothy 1:3
As I exhorted thee to abide at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest enjoin certain persons to introduce no different doctrine,
1 Timothy 4:7
But profane and antiquated fables reject, but exercise thyself unto godliness.
2 Timothy 2:23
But foolish and uninstructive disputes avoid, knowing that they produce quarrels.
Unprofitable
1 Corinthians 8:1
NOW concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all manner of science; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
2 Timothy 2:14
Put them in mind of these things, adjuring them before the Lord not to quarrel about words of no use, but tending to the perversion of the audience.
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2 Timothy 2:23
But foolish and uninstructive disputes avoid, knowing that they produce quarrels.