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NASB | 2 Timothy 2:23 But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 2:23 But have nothing to do with foolish and ignorant speculations [useless disputes over unedifying, stupid controversies], since you know that they produce strife and give birth to quarrels. |
Subject: What To Shut Your Mind Against |
Bible Note: Dear Brother Mark, You wrote, "I do wonder, though, what this forum would be like without any sarcasm, derision, condemnation, ulterior motives and agendas, criticism, and insults." I'm not much of a "fight fire with fire" kind of person. I'd rather side with the Word of God. (After all, it is one of the few eternal things with which we have to do.) That is why I qualified everything in my post with Scripture. The Word is the final judge, even when it offends our sense of self, contradicts our cherished presuppositions, or crosses current evangelical fads. In Him, Doc |