Titus 3:9-11

3:9 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, ¹  quarrels, and fights about the law, ²  because they are useless and empty. 3:10 Reject a divisive person after one or two warnings. 3:11 You know ³  that such a person is twisted by sin ⁴  and is conscious of it himself. ⁵ 

¹ tn Cf. 1 Tim 1:4.

² sn Fights about the law were characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus as well as in Crete (cf. 1 Tim 1:3-7; Titus 1:10, 14).

³ tn Grk “knowing” (as a continuation of the previous clause).

⁴ tn Grk “is perverted and is sinning.”

⁵ tn Grk “is sinning, being self-condemned.”