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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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THE CHRISTIAN CITIZEN (Titus 3:1-2)...
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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...
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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
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_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...
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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...
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WE HAVE NO REASON FOR PRIDE, BUT RATHER FOR THANKFULNESS...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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_]...
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_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...
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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...
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AN ADMONITION TO OBEDIENCE AND MEEKNESS....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Titus 3:3 For G1063 ourselves G2249 were G2258 (G5713) G453 also G2532
once G4218 foolish G453 disobedient...
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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...
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_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...
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AFORETIME
(ποτε). "Once" in our unconverted state as in Ephesians
2:3.FOOLISH
(ανοητο). See Romans 1:14; Romans 1:21.DISOBEDIENT
(απειθεις). See...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Peter 1:14; 1 Peter 4:1; 2 Corinthians 12:20;...
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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...
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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....
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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...