Titus 1:1-4
ADDRESS AND OPENING SALUTATION.... [ Continue Reading ]
ADDRESS AND OPENING SALUTATION.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;... [ Continue Reading ]
IN HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE, WHICH GOD, THAT CANNOT LIE, PROMISED BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HATH IN DUE TIMES MANIFESTED HIS WORD THROUGH PREACHING, WHICH IS COMMITTED UNTO ME ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, OUR SAVIOR;... [ Continue Reading ]
TO TITUS, MINE OWN SON AFTER THE COMMON FAITH: GRACE, MERCY, AND PEACE FROM GOD THE FATHER AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, OUR SAVIOR. The character of the letter is immediately indicated by the expression of apostolic dignity combined with the glory of the evangelical ministry: Paul, a servant of God, b... [ Continue Reading ]
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee;... [ Continue Reading ]
THE QUALIFICATIONS OF CHRISTIAN PASTORS.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ANY BE BLAMELESS, THE HUSBAND OF ONE WIFE, HAVING FAITHFUL CHILDREN NOT ACCUSED OF RIOT OR UNRULY.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR A BISHOP MUST BE BLAMELESS, AS THE STEWARD OF GOD; NOT SELF-WILLED, NOT SOON ANGRY, NOT GIVEN TO WINE, NO STRIKER, NOT GIVEN TO FILTHY LUCRE;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT A LOVER OF HOSPITALITY, A LOVER OF GOOD MEN, SOBER, JUST, HOLY, TEMPER ATE;... [ Continue Reading ]
HOLDING FAST THE FAITHFUL WORD AS HE HATH BEEN TAUGHT, THAT HE MAY BE ABLE BY SOUND DOCTRINE BOTH TO EXHORT AND TO CONVINCE THE GAINSAYERS. See 1 Timothy 3:1. The Lord of the Church wants all things to be done decently and in order, and the precepts which He here lays down should be observed in ever... [ Continue Reading ]
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FALSE TEACHERS CHARACTERIZED AND THE QUESTION OF HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM DISCUSSED.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOSE MOUTHS MUST BE STOPPED; WHO SUBVERT WHOLE HOUSES, TEACHING THINGS WHICH THEY OUGHT NOT, FOR FILTHY LUCRE'S SAKE.... [ Continue Reading ]
ONE OF THEMSELVES, EVEN A PROPHET OF THEIR OWN, SAID, THE CRETIANS ARE ALWAYS LIARS, EVIL BEASTS, SLOW BELLIES.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS WITNESS IS TRUE. WHEREFORE REBUKE THEM SHARPLY THAT THEY MAY BE SOUND IN THE FAITH,... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT GIVING HEED TO JEWISH FABLES AND COMMANDMENTS OF MEN, THAT TURN FROM THE TRUTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE; BUT UNTO THEM THAT ARE DEFILED AND UNBELIEVING IS NOTHING PURE; BUT EVEN THEIR MIND AND CONSCIENCE IS DEFILED.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD; BUT IN WORKS THEY DENY HIM, BEING ABOMINABLE AND DISOBEDIENT AND UNTO EVERY GOOD WORK REPROBATE. The term "objectors" or "gainsayers" used by the apostle in the previous paragraph was not a general term, which might cover almost any form of heresy that Titus chose to... [ Continue Reading ]