TITUS 3:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”
But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless — the prohibitions target the false teachers' methods: genealogies (genealogiai) likely refer to haggadic elaborations of biblical ancestry, controversies (zetēseis) to speculative disputes, law-quarrels to Judaizing demands. These are anoeta (foolish — without understanding) and achrona (useless), wasting church time on unprofitable wrangling rather than edification. Wisdom recognizes the boundary between profitable doctrine and empty disputation.
Church Fathers on Titus 3:9
Having spoken of the love of God to man, of His ineffable regard for us, of what we were and what He has done for us, he has added, “These things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works”; that is, Discourse of these things, and from a consideration of them exhort to almsgiving. For what has been said will not only apply to humility, to the not being puffed up, and not reviling others, but to every other…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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