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 who turn away from the truth.
1 Timothy 1:3
As I besought thee, when I set out for Macedonia, to remain still in Ephesus, that thou mightst charge certain persons not to teach other doctrine,
1 Timothy 4:7
But avoid the profane and old wives fables; and exercise thyself unto godliness.
2 Timothy 2:23
But the foolish and ignorant questionings avoid, knowing that they gender quarrels;
Unprofitable
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning the things offered in sacrifice 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 understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
2 Timothy 2:14
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord not to carry on a strife of words, to no useful purpose, but rather to the subverting of the hearers.
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2 Timothy 2:23
But the foolish and ignorant questionings avoid, knowing that they gender quarrels;