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These things are good and beneficial for all people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty. <span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Reject a divisive person after one or two warnings. <span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You know that such a person is twisted by sin and is conscious of it himself.</p> <p class="title">Final Instructions and Greeting</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Make every effort to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; make sure they have what they need. <span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Here is another way that our people can learn to engage in good works to meet pressing needs and so not be unfruitful. <span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Everyone with me greets you. 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