Discovery BoxTitus 3:9-11 
Context3:9 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, 1 quarrels, and fights about the law, 2 because they are useless and empty. 3:10 Reject a divisive person after one or two warnings. 3:11 You know 3 that such a person is twisted by sin 4 and is conscious of it himself. 5
2 sn Fights about the law were characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus as well as in Crete (cf. 1 Tim 1:3-7; Titus 1:10, 14).
3 tn Grk “knowing” (as a continuation of the previous clause).
4 tn Grk “is perverted and is sinning.”
5 tn Grk “is sinning, being self-condemned.”
