²³ and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,

⁹ and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.

⁷ and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,

¹⁴ These things remind `them' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

⁴ nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --

⁴ he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

⁵ wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

¹⁶ and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,