Tit 3:9 | RWP | e4.org | Fightings about the law ( μαχας νομικας ). "Legal battles." See ; . Wordy fights about Mosaic and Pharisaic and Gnostic regulations. Shun ( περιιστασο ). Present middle imperative of περιιστημ , intransitive, step around, stand aside ( ). Common in this sense in the literary Koine . Unprofitable ( ανωφελεις ). Old compound adjective ( α privative and οφελος ), in N.T. only here and .

‏ Titus 3:9

Fightings about the law ( μαχας νομικας ). "Legal battles." See 1Ti 6:4; 2Ti 2:23. Wordy fights about Mosaic and Pharisaic and Gnostic regulations.

Shun ( περιιστασο ). Present middle imperative of περιιστημ, intransitive, step around, stand aside (2Ti 2:16). Common in this sense in the literary Koine.

Unprofitable ( ανωφελεις ). Old compound adjective ( α privative and οφελος ), in N.T. only here and Heb 7:18.