An Approved Worker

14 Remind them of these things, charging them before God[a] not to fight about words;(A) this is in no way profitable and leads to the ruin of the hearers.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 2:14 Other mss read before the Lord

Dealing With False Teachers

14 Keep reminding God’s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words;(A) it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen.

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14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

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23 But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they breed quarrels.

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23 Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels.(A)

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

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But avoid foolish debates,(A) genealogies,(B) quarrels,(C) and disputes about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

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But avoid(A) foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels(B) about the law,(C) because these are unprofitable and useless.(D)

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But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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