9But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
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Of 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.
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)Here is the fifth and last thing in the matter of the epistle: what Titus should avoid in teaching; how he should deal with a heretic; with some other directions. Observe, I. That the apostle’s meaning might be more clear and full, and especially fitted to the time and state of things in Crete, and the many judaizers among them, he tells Titus what, in teaching, he should shun, Titus 3:9. There ar…
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