But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
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Gill's Exposition
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid,.... Such as have no solid wisdom in them, and are foreign from the Gospel, the wisdom of God in a mystery, and are not useful and unedifying; such ought to…
Barnes' Notes
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid; - see the notes at 2Ti 2:16; compare the notes at 1Ti 1:4, 1Ti 1:6; 1Ti 4:7. The word “unlearned,” here, means “trifling; that which does not tend to…
Adam Clarke
Foolish and unlearned questions - See the notes on Ti1 1:4; Ti1 4:7 (note), and Tit 3:9 (note).
I. Paul here exhorts Timothy to beware of youthful lusts, Ti2 2:22. Though he was a holy good man, very much mortified to the world, yet Paul thought it necessary to caution him against youthful…
Cambridge Bible
But foolish and unlearned questions But those foolish and ignorant questionings steadily refuse; as above -beware their bad doctrine; their foolish questioning decline."
unlearned The word occurs…
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