useless disputation
Diaparatribe denotes disputations occurring among people described as corrupt in mind and deprived of truth.
The attested use denotes disputations within a setting of corrupt-minded people deprived of truth, who suppose that piety is a means of gain.
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Disputations among corrupt-minded people · dominant
In 1 Timothy 6:5, the nominative plural feminine form occurs in the clause about people of corrupt mind and deprived of truth who suppose that piety is a means of gain; the APB renders the clause "and useless disputations among people of corrupt mind and deprived of the truth."
In the Anselm Project Bible: In 1 Timothy 6:5 the APB presents the term within "useless disputations among people of corrupt mind and deprived of the truth." The precise English correspondence cannot be isolated beyond this clause.