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[a]Avoid foolish arguments, genealogies, rivalries, and quarrels about the law,(A) for they are useless and futile.

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  1. 3:9 See note on 1 Tm 6:20–21.

[a]or to concern themselves with myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the plan of God that is to be received by faith.(A)

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  1. 1:4 The plan of God that is to be received by faith: the Greek may also possibly mean “God’s trustworthy plan” or “the training in faith that God requires.”

Avoid profane and silly myths. Train yourself for devotion,(A)

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and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths.(A)

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16 We did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming[a] of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty.(A)

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  1. 1:16 Coming: in Greek parousia, used at 2 Pt 3:4, 12 of the second coming of Christ. The word was used in the extrabiblical writings for the visitation of someone in authority; in Greek cult and Hellenistic Judaism it was used for the manifestation of the divine presence. That the apostles made known has been interpreted to refer to Jesus’ transfiguration (2 Pt 1:17) or to his entire first coming or to his future coming in power (2 Pt 3).