14Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
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But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. …
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-18)Having thus encouraged Timothy to suffer, he comes in the next place to direct him in his work. I. He must make it his business to edify those who were under his charge, to put them in remembrance of those things which they did already know; for this is the work of ministers; not to tell people that which they never knew before, but to put them in mind of that which they do know, charging them tha…
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