The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
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Ephesians 5:11:
Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
(NIV)
Take no part in and have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds and enterprises of darkness, but instead [let your lives be so in contrast as to] expose and reprove and convict them.
(AMP)
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
(KJV)
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2 Peter 1:8:
For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(NIV)
For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you, they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful unto the [full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
(AMP)
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(KJV)
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