Titus 1:15

In this verse, the word ‘pure’ means innocent and without *sin. A pure person is good. He is not a mixture of good and evil. The *Jews said that a person should obey all the *Old Testament commands. And they said that he should obey all the *Jewish traditions. That person would then be ‘pure’ or ‘clean’. Jesus said that those commands and traditions could not make a person pure (Mark 7:1-23; Luke 11:37-41). A person becomes pure in his spirit when he trusts Jesus. Jesus affects the person’s mind and conscience so that he is full of good things. Nothing physical can make him less pure in his spirit. However, if a person is not pure in his spirit, nothing physical can make his spirit pure.