2 Timothy 2:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they beget strifes.

2 Timothy 2:23 Cross References

1 Timothy 1:4

neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, the which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; so do I now.

1 Timothy 4:7

but refuse profane and old wives' fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness:

2 Timothy 2:14

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

2 Timothy 2:16

But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

Titus 3:9

but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

James 4:1

Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?