New Revised Standard Version
But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

Contemporary English Version
But don't have anything to do with stupid arguments about ancestors. And stay away from disagreements and quarrels about the Law of Moses. Such arguments are useless and senseless.

New American Bible
Avoid foolish arguments, genealogies, rivalries, and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and futile.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain.

But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain.

avoid.

Titus 1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn themselves away from the truth.

1 Timothy 1:3-7 As I desired thee to remain at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some not to teach otherwise: . . .

1 Timothy 4:7 But avoid foolish and old wives fables: and exercise thyself unto godliness.

2 Timothy 2:23 And avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they beget strifes.

unprofitable.

Job 15:3 Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee.

1 Corinthians 8:1 Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols: we know we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up: but charity edifieth.

1 Corinthians 13:2 And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

2 Timothy 2:14 Of these things put them in mind, charging them before the Lord. Contend not in words: for it is to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.