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 holding to Jewish fictions, and commands of men, having turned away from the truth.
1 Timothy 1:3
As I besought thee to remain in Ephesus, going into Macedonia, that thou mightest proclaim to some not to teach another doctrine,
1 Timothy 4:7
And profane and old women's fictions reject, and exercise thyself in devotion.
2 Timothy 2:23
And silly and ignorant questions refuse, knowing that they produce strifes.
Unprofitable
Job 15:3
Reproving with words he shall not profit, and speeches will be of no use in them.
1 Corinthians 8:1
And concerning sacrifice to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, and love builds the house.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
2 Timothy 2:14
Put these things in mind, calling to witness before the Lord not to wrangle for nothing useful, to the subversion of them hearing.
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2 Timothy 2:23
And silly and ignorant questions refuse, knowing that they produce strifes.