Titus 3:9-11·~1 min
Avoid Divisions
Paul tells Titus to avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, and quarrels about the law because they are unprofitable and worthless. A divisive person is to be warned once and then again, and afterward rejected, since such a person is warped, sinful, and self-condemned.
B9ut avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless. 10Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition, 11knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful; he is self-condemned.
Section summaryPaul tells Titus to avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and law-fights because they are useless and empty. A divisive person is to be warned once and then again, and if he persists he is to be rejected, since such a person is warped, sinful, and self-condemned.
Role in the chapterThis middle section protects the churches from the same kind of fruitless disorder that earlier chapters associated with false teaching. It draws a firm boundary around divisiveness for the sake of the church's health.