2 Timothy 2:16

⁹but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

²⁰Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

⁷For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way. ⁸Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

¹⁴Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord that they don’t argue about words to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

¹⁴not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

¹Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

¹⁰Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel.

⁷But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

³One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast.

¹⁸For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;