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Titus 3

Titus 3:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But
de (Greek #1161)
but, and, etc.
KJV usage: also, and, but, moreover, now (often unexpressed in English).
Pronounce: deh
Origin: a primary particle (adversative or continuative)
o avoid
periistemi (Greek #4026)
to stand all around, i.e. (near) to be a bystander, or (aloof) to keep away from
KJV usage: avoid, shun, stand by (round about).
Pronounce: per-ee-is'-tay-mee
Origin: from 4012 and 2476
foolish
moros (Greek #3474)
dull or stupid (as if shut up), i.e. heedless, (morally) blockhead, (apparently) absurd
KJV usage: fool(-ish, X -ishness).
Pronounce: mo-ros'
Origin: probably from the base of 3466
questions
zetesis (Greek #2214)
a searching (properly, the act), i.e. a dispute or its theme
KJV usage: question.
Pronounce: dzay'-tay-sis
Origin: from 2212
, and
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
genealogies
genealogia (Greek #1076)
tracing by generations, i.e. "genealogy"
KJV usage: genealogy.
Pronounce: ghen-eh-al-og-ee'-ah
Origin: from the same as 1075
, and
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
contentions
eris (Greek #2054)
a quarrel, i.e. (by implication) wrangling
KJV usage: contention, debate, strife, variance.
Pronounce: er'-is
Origin: of uncertain affinity
, and
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
strivings
mache (Greek #3163)
a battle, i.e. (figuratively) controversy
KJV usage: fighting, strive, striving.
Pronounce: makh'-ay
Origin: from 3164
about the law
nomikos (Greek #3544)
according (or pertaining) to law, i.e. legal (ceremonially); as noun, an expert in the (Mosaic) law
KJV usage: about the law, lawyer.
Pronounce: nom-ik-os'
Origin: from 3551
; for
gar (Greek #1063)
properly, assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles)
KJV usage: and, as, because (that), but, even, for, indeed, no doubt, seeing, then, therefore, verily, what, why, yet.
Pronounce: gar
Origin: a primary particle
they are
eisi (Greek #1526)
they are
KJV usage: agree, are, be, dure, X is, were.
Pronounce: i-see'
Origin: 3d person plural present indicative of 1510
unprofitable
anopheles (Greek #512)
useless or (neuter) inutility
KJV usage: unprofitable(-ness).
Pronounce: an-o-fel'-ace
Origin: from 1 (as a negative particle) and the base of 5624
and
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
vain
mataios (Greek #3152)
empty, i.e. (literally) profitless, or (specially), an idol
KJV usage: vain, vanity.
Pronounce: mat'-ah-yos
Origin: from the base of 3155
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2 Tim. 2:23• 23But foolish and ignorant questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions. (2 Tim. 2:23)

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Ministry on This Verse

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avoid.
Titus 1:14• 14not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away as they do from the truth. (Titus 1:14)
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1 Tim. 1:3‑7• 3Even as when setting out for Macedonia I besought thee to remain in Ephesus, that thou mightest charge some not to be strange teachers,
 4nor to pay heed to fables and endless genealogies, such as furnish questionings rather than God's dispensation that is in faith.
 5Now the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned;
 6which [things] some, having missed, turned aside unto vain talk,
 7desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say, or whereof they affirm. (1 Tim. 1:3‑7)
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1 Tim. 4:7• 7But the profane and old-womanish fables refuse, and exercise thyself unto piety; (1 Tim. 4:7)
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2 Tim. 2:23• 23But foolish and ignorant questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions. (2 Tim. 2:23)
unprofitable.
Job 15:3•  (Job 15:3)
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1 Cor. 8:1• 1But concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge; knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. (1 Cor. 8:1)
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1 Cor. 13:2• 2And if I have prophecy, and know all the mysteries and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith so as to remove mountains, yet have not love, I am nothing. (1 Cor. 13:2)
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2 Tim. 2:14• 14Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the Lord that they fight not about words, to no profit, for subversion of those that hear. (2 Tim. 2:14)
• What will produce honorable works? Nothing but the gospel of the glory of the blessed God which was committed to Paul and pressed on Titus no less than Timothy. Here then the Apostle denounces the misuse of the law. As it puffs up man who, ignorant of his sin and powerlessness, builds on it, so it engenders foolish questions and genealogies and strifes, and legal fightings. (“On Titus 3:8-11” by W. Kelly)
• It is still the Gnostic Judaism setting itself up against the simplicity of the gospel; it is the law and human righteousness, and that which, by means of intermediate beings, destroys the simplicity and the immediate character of our relationship with the God of grace. (“Titus 3” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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but foolish questionings and genealogies and strifes and legal fightings shun, for they are unprofitable and vain.