Titus 3:9-11
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9 But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.(A) 10 After a first and second admonition, have nothing more to do with anyone who causes divisions,(B) 11 since you know that such a person is perverted and sinful, being self-condemned.
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Titus 3:9-11
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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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