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Titus 2:7
in all things showing thyself a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
in all things showing thyself a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
TITUS 2:7 avfqori,an The Committee preferred the reading avfqori,an (“incorruption”) because it is supported by good representatives of both the Alexandrian and Western types of text (a A C D* 33 _al...
Verse 7. _IN ALL THINGS SHOWING THYSELF A PATTERN_] As the apostle had given directions relative to the conduct of _old men_, Titus 2:2, of _old women_, Titus 2:3, of _young women_, Titus 2:4, and of...
IN ALL THINGS SHOWING THYSELF A PATTERN OF GOOD WORKS - Not merely teaching others, but showing them by example how they ought to live. On the word rendered “pattern” (τύπον tupon, type), see the Heb...
II. THINGS WHICH BECOME SOUND DOCTRINE CHAPTER 2 _ 1. Adorning the doctrine of our Saviour-God (Titus 2:1)_ 2. The grace of God and its work (Titus 2:11) Titus 2:1 “But speak thou the things which...
TEACHING ON CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOUR. (_a) Titus 2:1_. DUTY OF DIFFERENT CLASSES. In contrast with the errorists-' irrefevances, Titus must continually inculcate right conduct. This is defined for (_a)_ o...
THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER (Titus 2:1-10) (1) The Senior Men (Titus 2:1-2)...
And all the time you are doing this you must offer yourself as a pattern of fine conduct; and in your teaching you must display absolute purity of motive, dignity, a sound message which no one could c...
IN. App-104. SHEWING. Greek. _parecho_. Elsewhere, offer, give, minister, &c. PATTERN. Greek. _tupos_. See John 20:25. GOOD WORKS. See Titus 1:16. DOCTRINE. See Titus 1:9. un
_shewing thyself_ The middle participle and the reflex pron. for emphasis; Winer, iii. 38, 6. _a pattern of good works_ The simple word our -type" here with the thing, as in 1 Timothy 4:12 with the pe...
ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΊΑ�. This is undoubtedly the true reading and is found in א*ACD2*E*KLP; G has ἀφθονίαν. The rec. text has ἀδιαφθορίαν with אcD2cE**L and cursives. After σεμνότητα the rec. text adds ἀ...
1–10. TITUS’ POSITIVE TEACHING, AS REGARDS VARIOUS CLASSES OF PERSONS...
ΠΑΡΕΧΌΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. part. от_ ΠΑΡΈΧΩ (G3930) показывать что-л. на своем примере (BAGD); _med._ с двойным _асс._ ΤΎΠΟΣ (G5179) пример, модель, образец, ΔΊΔΑΣΚΑΛΊΑ (G1319) _dat. sing._ учение, до...
IN DOCTRINE SHEWING UNCORRUPTNESS, &C.— Speaking nothing but the genuine truth; and let it be attended with a gravity in declaring it, proportionable to its importance, and proceed from sincerity of h...
THE YOUNG MEN Titus 2:6-8. _TEXT 2:6-8_ 6 the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded; 7 in all things showing thyself an example of good works; in thy doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity...
all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: —Titus and the young men are to be examples of Christianity in the community and among brethren. They are to live what they preach. Titus was to pro...
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, IN - with respect to all things. THYSELF A PATTERN - though but a young man. All teachin...
1 Paul writes this letter in the character of a slave. This shows that the epistle deals with service. He adds the title apostle, to give weight to his injunctions. 2 Eonian life, usually called "eve...
VARIOUS INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHRISTIAN LIFE AND DOCTRINE 1-15. 'In giving sound doctrine, to offset false teaching, put the first emphasis on the need of character, because Christ is our reward, and very...
Paul told Titus to be a good model. Paul said this to Timothy too (1 Timothy 4:12). Titus had to be a model ‘in every way’. He had to teach the truth and he had to behave in the right way. This would...
A GUIDE FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERS TITUS _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 WHAT TITUS HAD TO TEACH V1 But you, Titus, must teach the things that are true. V2 Teach the older men that they sho...
IN ALL THINGS SHEWING THYSELF A PATTERN OF GOOD WORKS. — Here St. Paul shows Titus that his especial work is the instruction of no one peculiar class or order, or age or sex, but that he is so to fash...
περὶ πάντα is joined with the preceding words by Jerome and Lucifer (_ut pudici_ [_sobrii_] _sint in omnibus_), followed by Tischendorf and von Soden. For this use of περί, See on 1 Timothy 1:19. St....
In the face of this immoral teaching, do you constantly impress the moral duties of the Gospel on your people of every age and class. There is an ideal of conduct appropriate to old men and old women...
A PATTERN FOR OLD AND YOUNG Titus 2:1 The supreme test of all Christian teaching and Christian work depends on whether they produce healthy characters, which are not contaminated by the noisome and...
The apostle then proceeded to show what the behavior of aged men, aged women, and young men in the Church should be. In connection with the behavior of bond-servants Paul employed what is perhaps the...
INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUNG MEN AND SERVANTS As with all the other categories, young men are exhorted to maintain self-control. Titus, like all the other young men, was charged to be a model of good works....
(3) In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine [shewing] uncorruptness, (b) gravity, sincerity, (3) The sixth admonition: that both the pastor's life and doctrine must be soun...
_In gravity: to which is added in the Protestant [translation] sincerity, [2] from some Greek copies; but it is left out by Dr. Wells, as being not in the best Greek manuscripts nor is it in the Amste...
(1) В¶ But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: (2) That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. (3) The aged women likewise, that they be in be...
The epistle to Titus has much in common with those to Timothy, as all must observe; not only as being addressed to a fellow-servant, and indeed a son in the faith, but in general similarity of charact...
7._In all things shewing thyself _For doctrine will otherwise carry little authority, if its power and majesty do not shine in the life of the bishop, (242) as in a mirror. He wishes, therefore, that...
"Sound doctrine" takes account of all this, and, in its warnings and exhortations, maintains all these proprieties. This is the instruction which the apostle here gives to Titus, with regard to aged m...
IN ALL THINGS SHOWING THYSELF A PATTERN OF GOOD WORKS,.... It was not enough for Titus, and so neither for any other Gospel minister, to deliver out sound doctrine, and to exhort persons of different...
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine _shewing_ uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, Ver. 7. _A pattern of good_] Gr. τυπος, a stamp. Digging thy sermons out of thine own b...
_In all things_ In all these and other respects not here mentioned; _showing thyself a pattern of good works_ Of every thing amiable and excellent; of every disposition and practice which thou enjoine...
In contrast to the vanity of others, as in the previous verses, Titus has pressed upon him his personal responsibility: "But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine." "Sound" has the force o...
1-8 Old disciples of Christ must behave in every thing agreeably to the Christian doctrine. That the aged men be sober; not thinking that the decays of nature will justify any excess; but seeking com...
OLBGrk; IN ALL THINGS SHOWING THYSELF A PATTERN OF GOOD WORKS: he is an ill teacher of others who teacheth them not by his own example, as well as by his doctrine; for that physician proves ordinarily...
Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle For considering not his own advantage but the advantage of many, that they might be saved, he judged it more necessary than his own rest to remain with the breth...
Titus 2:7 in G4012 things G3956 showing G3930 (G5734) yourself G4572 pattern G5179 good G2570 works G2041 in...
Titus 2:7. To this class Titus belonged; therefore he was to be its model as well as preceptor. ‘The teacher of others should be like a basin which ere it can overflow must first be itself filled from...
SHEWING THYSELF (σεαυτον παρεχομενος). Present middle (redundant middle) participle of παρεχω with the reflexive pronoun σεαυτον as if the active voice παρεχων. The _Koine_ shows an increasing numb...
Titus 2:1. _But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:_ There are certain things which are suitable to go with sound doctrine; they are meet and fit and appropriate thereto. Titus 2:2. _...
Titus 2:6. _Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded._ They are full of spirits, they are very sanguine, they are apt to be carried away with novelties; exhort them to have that which is thought...
CONTENTS: Pastoral work of a true minister. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Titus. CONCLUSION: The ministers of Christ should discharge their duties with faithfulness, being careful to teach only such trut...
Titus 2:1. _But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine._ Just the reverse of those men of tongue, reciting fables, instead of giving the fair illustration of truth, which “when unadorned is...
YOU YOURSELF. Some think this implies that Titus was himself a young man. But whatever age, the spiritual are to set the example by their own holy living....
_In __ALL_ _THINGS_ _SHOWING_ _THYSELF_ _A_ _PATTERN_ A good example Having propounded the several precepts fitted to all ages of men and women, the last whereof was unto young men, our apostle here...
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 2:5, TITUS 2:8, TITUS 2:10 These verses encourage a “gospel lifestyle” that gives unbelievers no reason to reject
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 2:1 Christian Living in Contrast to the False Teachers. Paul describes proper Christian living rooted in the gospel. This is in direct contrast to the behavior of the false teacher...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Titus 2:4. THAT THEY MAY TEACH.—R.V. “may train.” The word almost suggests that there was a certain amount of levity amongst the younger wives inconsistent with a pro...
EXPOSITION TITUS 2:1 _Befit _for _become, _A.V.; _the sound _for _sound, _A.V. BUT SPEAK THOU, etc. The apostle now brings out, in full couldst with the vain talk of the heretical teachers, the solid...
Ver. 7. Not only teach and exhort so, but having respect to Titus, as himself comparatively a young man _showing thyself_ (the σεαυτὸν used with the middle voice, though it might have been dispensed w...
But he said to Titus, speak the things which become sound doctrine (Titus 2:1): Again, the emphasis and the exhortation is that of sound doctrine. Now, teach that the aged men (Titus 2:2), And this...
1 Peter 5:3; 1 Timothy 4:12; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Corinthians 2:17;...
In all things [π ε ρ ι π α ν τ α]. Lit. concerning all things. The exact phrase, N. T. o. For analogous use of peri comp. Luke 10:40; Luke 10:41; Acts 19:25; 1 Timoth
THE BLESSED HOPE Titus 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Second Coming of Christ remains unto this hour as the Blessed Hope. It is the lamp that shineth in a dark place until the day dawns, and the daystar...
GRACE TEACHING HOW TO LIVE Titus 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Titus is one of the most practical in its message, of any of the Epistles. It is GRACE TEACHING US HOW TO LIVE. Titus 1:1; Titus...
Showing thyself a pattern — Titus himself was then young. In the doctrine which thou teachest in public: as to matter, uncorruptness; as to the manner of delivering it, seriousness — Weightiness, sole...
St. Paul having directed Titus what doctrine to preach, comes now to instruct him what example to lead, IN ALL THINGS SHOW THYSELF. PATTERN OF GOOD WORKS; as if he had said, In all the good which thou...