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.
2 Timothy 2:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes. Common English Bible Avoid foolish and thoughtless discussions, since you know that they produce conflicts. Catholic Public Domain Version But avoid foolish and undisciplined questions, for you know that these produce strife. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they beget strifes. |
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.
but refuse profane and old wives' fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness:
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.
But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,
but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?