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 exhorted you to continue in Ephesus, when I was journeying into Macedonia, that you might charge certain ones not to teach a different doctrine,
1 Timothy 4:7
but refuse the profane and old wives fables, and exercise yourself unto godliness;
2 Timothy 2:23
But the foolish and ignorant questionings reject, knowing that they beget strifes;
Unprofitable
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now, concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know because we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And, if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all the mysteries and all knowledge; and, if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing,
2 Timothy 2:14
Of these things put them in remembrance, solemnly charging them before God, that they engage not in word-battles to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
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2 Timothy 2:23
But the foolish and ignorant questionings reject, knowing that they beget strifes;