2 Timothy 2:23 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²³ For of these sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, who are led away with divers desires:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ But refuse (shut your mind against, have nothing to do with) trifling (ill-informed, unedifying, stupid) controversies over ignorant questionings, for you know that they foster strife and breed quarrels.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes.

Common English Bible

²³ Avoid foolish and thoughtless discussions, since you know that they produce conflicts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ But avoid foolish and undisciplined questions, for you know that these produce strife.

2 Timothy 2:23 Cross References

1 Timothy 1:4

3 Who before was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

1 Timothy 4:7

6 Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.

2 Timothy 2:14

3 And avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they beget strifes.

2 Timothy 2:16

5 With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: if peradventure God may give them repentance to know the truth,

Titus 3:9

Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

James 4:1

0 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.