Titus 3:13

3:13 Make every effort to help ¹  Zenas the lawyer ²  and Apollos on their way; make sure they have what they need. ³ 

Titus 3:9

3:9 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, ⁴  quarrels, and fights about the law, ⁵  because they are useless and empty.

¹ tn Grk “Eagerly help.”

² tn Although it is possible the term νομικός (nomikos) indicates an expert in Jewish religious law here, according to L&N 33.338 and 56.37 it is more probable that Zenas was a specialist in civil law.

³ tn Grk “that nothing may be lacking for them.”

⁴ tn Cf. 1 Tim 1:4.

⁵ 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).