²³ But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife.

Approved and Disapproved Workers

¹⁴ Remind them of these things, ^(A)charging them before the Lord not to ^[a]strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers.

Avoid Dissension

⁹ But ^(A)avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.

¹⁶ But shun profane and ^[a]idle babblings, for they will ^[b]increase to more ungodliness.

⁴ he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, ^5 [a]useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. ^[b]From ^(A)such withdraw yourself.

⁷ But ^(A)reject profane and old wives’ fables, and ^(B)exercise yourself toward godliness.

^4 (A)nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith.