Titus 3:9-11
New Living Translation
9 Do not get involved in foolish discussions about spiritual pedigrees[a] or in quarrels and fights about obedience to Jewish laws. These things are useless and a waste of time. 10 If people are causing divisions among you, give a first and second warning. After that, have nothing more to do with them. 11 For people like that have turned away from the truth, and their own sins condemn them.
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- 3:9 Or spiritual genealogies.
Titus 3:9-11
New English Translation
9 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies,[a] quarrels, and fights about the law,[b] because they are useless and empty. 10 Reject a divisive person after one or two warnings. 11 You know[c] that such a person is twisted by sin[d] and is conscious of it himself.[e]
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- Titus 3:9 tn Cf. 1 Tim 1:4.
- Titus 3:9 sn Fights about the law were characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus as well as in Crete (cf. 1 Tim 1:3-7; Titus 1:10, 14).
- Titus 3:11 tn Grk “knowing” (as a continuation of the previous clause).
- Titus 3:11 tn Grk “is perverted and is sinning.”
- Titus 3:11 tn Grk “is sinning, being self-condemned.”
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