2 Timothy 2:23

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

And silly and ignorant questions refuse, knowing that they produce strifes.

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Put these things in mind, calling to witness before the Lord not to wrangle for nothing useful, to the subversion of them hearing.

And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

And avoid profane, empty discourses: for they will proceed to more of profanation.

And profane and old women's fictions reject, and exercise thyself in devotion.

Neither hold to fictions and endless genealogies, which offer questions, rather than the arrangement of God in the faith:

Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members