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


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Colossians 2 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
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Proverbs 22 15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
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