| The Darby Translation (DBY) | New International Version (NIV) |
| 9 But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the law, shun; for they are unprofitable and vain. | 9 But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. |
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