2 Timothy 2:23

WEB

²³But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

KJV

²³But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

BSB

²³But reject foolish and ignorant speculation, for you know that it breeds quarreling.

FBV

²³Avoid foolish and childish debates, for you know they only lead to fights.

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Extra References

2 Timothy 2:14

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.

Titus 3:9

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

1 Timothy 4:7

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

⁴he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions, ⁵constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

1 Timothy 1:4

⁴and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith.

2 Timothy 2:16

¹⁶But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,