Key Verse Spotlight
Titus 3:9 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”
Titus 3:9
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
{This is} a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
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