Titus 3:9

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit;

For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

Let all that you do be done in love.

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

But they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,