1 Timothy 1:4
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
Context
This verse from 1 Timothy Chapter 1 connects to 10 cross-references. Paul instructs Timothy to charge certain people not to teach different doctrine. The aim of the charge is love from a pure heart, good conscience, and sincere faith. The law is not for the just but for the lawless. Paul …
Other Translations
neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; so do I now.
nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --
Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;
Cross References
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established …
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a …
Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no …
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry …
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, …
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely …