Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Titus 3:3
For we — And as God hath dealt with us, so ought we to deal with our neighbour. Were without understanding — Wholly ignorant of God. And disobedient — When he was declared to us.
For we — And as God hath dealt with us, so ought we to deal with our neighbour. Were without understanding — Wholly ignorant of God. And disobedient — When he was declared to us.
Verse Titus 3:3. _FOR WE OURSELVES_] All of us, whether Jews or Gentiles, were, before our conversion to Christ, foolish, disobedient, and deceived. There is no doubt that the apostle felt he could i...
FOR WE OURSELVES - We who are Christians. There is no reason for supposing, as Benson does, that this is to be understood as confined to Paul himself. There are some things mentioned here which were n...
III. IN RELATION TO THE WORLD AND FALSE TEACHERS CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Instructions (Titus 3:1)_ 2. Warnings (Titus 3:9) 3. Directions (Titus 3:12)...
FURTHER INSTRUCTION ON CHRISTIAN CONDUCT. (_a_) TITUS 3:1 F. BEHAVIOUR TO THOSE OUTSIDE. In his relation with unbelievers the Christian must show (i) towards those in authority, obedience (1 Timothy 2...
THE CHRISTIAN CITIZEN (Titus 3:1-2)...
For we too were once senseless, disobedient, misguided, slaves to all kinds of desires and pleasures, living in maliciousness and envy, detestable ourselves, and hating each other. But when the goodne...
SOMETIMES. at one time. FOOLISH. Greek. _anoetos_. See Romans 1:14. DISOBEDIENT. See Titus 1:16. SERVING. Greek. _douleuo_. the condition of being. slave. Compare Titus 2:3. App-190. lusts
_For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish_ -Sometimes" in the old sense of -sometime," Ephesians 2:13, -ye who sometimes were afar off." Cp. Shaksp. _Rich. II_. 1. 2. 54 (_Bible Word-Book_, p. 551...
WE HAVE NO REASON FOR PRIDE, BUT RATHER FOR THANKFULNESS...
ἯΜΕΝ ΓΆΡ ΠΟΤΕ ΚΑῚ ἩΜΕΙ͂Σ Κ.Τ.Λ. _For we ourselves were once_ &c. Before we became Christians we were even as these very heathen. ἈΝΌΗΤΟΙ, _foolish_, senseless; cp. Galatians 3:1. ἈΠΕΙΘΕΙ͂Σ, _disobedi...
ΉΜΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть, ΠΟΤΈ (G4218) прежде, ΆΝΌΗΤΟΣ (G453) непонятливый, глупый, ΆΠΕΙΘΉΣ (G545) непокорный. ΠΛΑΝΏΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΠΛΑΝΆΩ (G4105) обманывать, сбив...
FOR WE OURSELVES ALSO— That St. Paul, like many other authors, frequently speaks of himself in the first person plural, is well known to all who have attended to his phraseology, and to the course of...
THE MOTIVE FOR PROPER CONDUCT Titus 3:3-7 _TEXT 3:3-7_ 3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one anoth...
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, —Without understanding-ignorant of God, his nature, his providence, and his grace.This is a reminder to examine self so that one does not become haughty o...
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. FOR. Our own past sins should le...
14 The ransom of Christ has a present power. Lawlessness is that basic conception of sin in which it is viewed as a departure from the normal and natural course of things. The ransom Of Christ will ev...
THE SUBSTANCE AND MANNER OF THE TEACHING TO BE GIVEN. FAREWELL 1-15. 'Remind the Cretans to be loyal citizens, good neighbours. As, through no merit of ours, God won us to Himself, so we must live go...
WE OURSELVES] i.e. we Christians. WERE SOMETIMES] 'Were' (standing first in the Gk. sentence is emphatic) 'at one time' (RV 'aforetime'). 4. Alford translates this v., 'But when the goodness and love...
A GUIDE FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERS TITUS _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 THE CHRISTIAN CITIZEN V1 Remind the people about these things. The people should let the government and the rulers h...
FOR WE OURSELVES ALSO WERE SOMETIMES FOOLISH, DISOBEDIENT, DECEIVED. — Better rendered, _For we were once ourselves foolish, disobedient, going astray._ Surely, the Apostle argues, _Christians_ can ne...
CHAPTER 24 THE DUTY OF OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY, WITH ITS LIMITS; THE DUTY OF COURTESY WITHOUT LIMITS. - Titus 3:1 ST. PAUL, having in the previous chapter sketched the special duties which Titus is to...
Cretans who hear this epistle need not feel hurt as though I were thinking of them with exceptional severity. We were such ourselves until we came to know the love of God, unmerited and saving and san...
ἦμεν γάρ ποτε καὶ ἡμεῖς : The connexion is: you need not suppose that it is hopeless to imagine that these wild Cretan folk can be reclaimed. We ourselves are a living proof of the power of God's grac...
MAKING RETURN TO GOD'S LOVING-KINDNESS Titus 3:1 Throughout this Epistle, the Apostle insists on good works. See Titus 2:7; Titus 2:14; Titus 3:8;...
The final section of the epistle has to do with the Church and the State, dealing with the duty of the Church, arguments impelling to the fulfilment of duty, and the method of realization. The duty of...
PAST SINFUL LIVES Those who were Christians at the time of Paul's writing were once involved in all sorts of sin (Titus 3:3). They were without spiritual understanding (foolish; 1 Timothy 6:9). Being...
(2) For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another. (2) He confirms again the fo...
We may see in this portrait of a child of Adam, drawn by the hand of a master, what we should have been without Jesus Christ, and what we perhaps have been, as often as he has abandoned us to ourselve...
(1) В¶ Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, (2) To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meeknes...
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...
3_For we ourselves _(257) _also were formerly foolish _Nothing is better adapted to subdue our pride, and at the same time to moderate our severity, than when it is shewn that everything that we turn...
With respect to the conduct of Christians towards the world, grace has banished violence, and the spirit of rebellion and resistance which agitates the heart of those who believe hot, and which has it...
FOR WE OURSELVES ALSO WERE SOMETIMES FOOLISH,.... Nothing has a greater tendency to promote humility, and check pride in the saints, than to reflect upon their past state and condition, what they them...
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, _and_ hating one another. Ver. 3. _For we ourselves also_]...
_Put them._ All the Cretian Christians; _in mind to be subject_ Passively, not resisting; _to principalities_ Supreme rulers; _and powers_ Subordinate governors; and _to obey magistrates_ Actively, as...
WE OURSELVES ALSO; as well as the unbelieving world without us now lying in wickedness. From the regenerating and renewing grace of God, which had elevated believers from a life of inward uncleanness...
AN ADMONITION TO OBEDIENCE AND MEEKNESS....
FOR WE OURSELVES ALSO WERE SOMETIMES FOOLISH, DISOBEDIENT, DECEIVED, SERVING DIVERS LUSTS AND PLEASURES, LIVING IN MALICE AND ENVY, HATEFUL, AND HATING ONE ANOTHER. In addition to the admonitions whic...
Though we are not of this world, as the blessed hope of Chapter 2:13 reminds us, yet while in it, our relationships toward it are to bear true Christian character. God has Himself constituted proper a...
1-7 Spiritual privileges do not make void or weaken, but confirm civil duties. Mere good words and good meanings are not enough without good works. They were not to be quarrelsome, but to show meekne...
FOR WE OURSELVES ALSO WERE SOMETIMES FOOLISH; without any knowledge, wisdom, or spiritual understanding. DISOBEDIENT: the word signifieth as well unbelieving as disobedient, neither persuaded to assen...
Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen " Thus speaks the apostolic Scripture: "But after that the kindness and love of God our saviour to man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we...
Titus 3:3 For G1063 ourselves G2249 were G2258 (G5713) G453 also G2532 once G4218 foolish G453 disobedient...
Titus 3:3. Such conduct becomes people who (1) were once like the heathen, but who (2) have been changed through Divine grace and no merit of their own. The argument turns on the vast change conversio...
_What Titus is to teach on the duties of social life_ (Titus 3:1-2) _enforced by a long argument drawn from the change which Christians had them-selves experienced through grace_ (Titus 3:3-7) _Exhort...
AFORETIME (ποτε). "Once" in our unconverted state as in Ephesians 2:3.FOOLISH (ανοητο). See Romans 1:14; Romans 1:21.DISOBEDIENT (απειθεις). See...
Titus 3:3 , TITUS 3:6 I. Up to a certain point, men of all schools of religious and philosophical thought are agreed, both as to the facts of the moral state of the world, and as to the nature of the...
Titus 3:1. _Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,_ You see, they were a rough, wild, rebellious people in Crete, and Christ...
Titus 3:1. _Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, to speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekne...
CONTENTS: Further instructions concerning pastoral work of a true minister. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Titus, Artemas, Tychicus, Zenas, Apollos. CONCLUSION: The ministers of Christ...
Titus 3:1. _Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers._ See on Romans 13:1. Titus 3:5. _Not by works of righteousness which we have done._ Good works being strongly enforced here, we...
FOR WE OURSELVES. Paul speaks of "we Christians" in general, not himself. FOOLISH, DISOBEDIENT, and wrong. "Even we Jews can't _talk about others,_ because we were once foolish in our thinking about r...
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 3:3 As in Titus 2:11, Paul explains how his encouragements to godly living (Titus 3:1) are based on the gospel. T
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Titus 3:1. PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS.—The two words stand thus together to give fuller expression to the notion of authority. TO OBEY MAGISTRATES.—R.V. “to be obedien...
EXPOSITION TITUS 3:1 In _subjection _for _subject, _A.V.; _rulers _for _principalities. _A.V.; _to authorities _for _and powers, _A.V. and T.R.; _to be obedient _for _to obey magistrates, _A.V.; _un...
Ver. 3. As a reason for the manifestation of this mild and benignant spirit toward others, even degraded and ignorant heathen, the apostle refers to their own similar state in the past, and the marvel...
But put them in mind to be subject to the principalities and powers, and to obey the magistrates, and to be ready to every good work (Titus 3:1), So here as in many other places, the Christian is exho...
1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Peter 1:14; 1 Peter 4:1; 2 Corinthians 12:20;...
Divers - pleasures [η δ ο ν α ι ς π ο ι κ ι λ α ι ς]. Hdonh pleasure, only here in Pastorals. o P. See on James 4:1. For poikilaiv divers, see on 2 Timothy 3:6. Malice [κ α κ ι α]. Only here in Pastor...
Here we have. very weighty reason laid down by our apostle, why Christians should be found in the practice of the forementioned virtues of equity and lenity, of patience and charity, of meekness and l...