Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Fightings about the law (maxav nomikav). "Legal battles." See I Timothy 6:4; II Timothy 2:23. Wordy fights about Mosaic and Pharisaic and Gnostic regulations.
Shun (periistaso). Present middle imperative of periisthmi, intransitive, step around, stand aside (II Timothy 2:16). Common in this sense in the literary Koin‚.
Unprofitable (anwfeleiv). Old compound adjective (a privative and ofelov), in N.T. only here and Hebrews 7:18.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Titus 3:9:
1 Timothy 1:4
2 Timothy 2:14
2 Timothy 2:16
Hebrews 7:18
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