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.

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