Vanity: Foolish Questions Are

Some have strayed from these ways and turned aside to empty talk.

They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert.

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid irreverent, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of so-called “knowledge,”

Remind the believers of these things, charging them before God to avoid quarreling over words, which succeeds only in leading the listeners to ruin.

But avoid irreverent, empty chatter, which will only lead to more ungodliness,

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.