But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. {a novice: or, one newly come to the faith}

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

Of these things put {them} in remembrance, charging {them} before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, {but} to the subverting of the hearers.

Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: {so do}.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling {words}, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

For when they speak great swelling {words} of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, {through much} wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. {clean: or, for a little, or, a while, as some read}

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

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as {ye do this} day, to make your voice to be heard on high. {ye shall...: or, ye fast not as this day}

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. {divisions: or, schisms}

Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

What {doth it} profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift {is like} clouds and wind without rain. {of a...: Heb. in a gift of falsehood}

From whence {come} wars and fightings among you? {come they} not hence, {even} of your lusts that war in your members? {fightings: or, brawlings} {lusts: or, pleasures}

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, {beguile...: or, judge against you} {in a...: Gr. being a voluntary in humility}

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour {you}, if a man take {of you}, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

{Let} nothing {be done} through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? {to envy: or, enviously?}

But if it be a question of words and names, and {of} your law, look ye {to it}; for I will be no judge of such {matters}.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet {hath} nothing: {there is} that maketh himself poor, yet {hath} great riches.

But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? {there is} more hope of a fool than of him.

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas {there is} among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? {divisions: or, factions} {as men: Gr. according to man?}

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, {but} not to doubtful disputations. {not...: or, not to judge his doubtful thoughts}

Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. {honestly: or, decently}

{Be} of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. {condescend...: or, be contented with mean things}

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

{Let} nothing {be done} through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

From whence {come} wars and fightings among you? {come they} not hence, {even} of your lusts that war in your members? {fightings: or, brawlings} {lusts: or, pleasures}

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. {a novice: or, one newly come to the faith}

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

Of these things put {them} in remembrance, charging {them} before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, {but} to the subverting of the hearers.

Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

But if it be a question of words and names, and {of} your law, look ye {to it}; for I will be no judge of such {matters}.

Charity suffereth long, {and} is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, {vaunteth...: or, is not rash}

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised {is} wisdom.

For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them {which are of the house} of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that {was} our father's; and of {that} which {was} our father's hath he gotten all this glory.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; {having...: or, not aiming at}

A foolish woman {is} clamorous: {she is} simple, and knoweth nothing.

A sword {is} upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword {is} upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. {liars: or, chief stays: Heb. bars}

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! {follow: Heb. walk after} {and...: or, and things which they have not seen}

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane {and} vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: {science: Gr. knowledge}

Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth {it} empty, swept, and garnished.