What does Titus 2:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works."
Verse 14. _WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US_] Who gave his own life as a _ransom price_ to redeem ours. This is evidently what is meant, as the words λυτρωσηται and λαον περιουσιον imply. The verb λυτροω sign...
WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US - See the notes at Ephesians 5:2. THAT HE MIGHT REDEEM US FROM ALL INIQUITY - The word here rendered “redeem” - λυτρόω lutroō, occurs only here and in Luk 24:21; 1 Peter 1:18...
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...
(_b_) TITUS 2:11. ITS DOCTRINAL BASIS. The transformed lives thus required from different groups are rendered possible by God's own grace, revealed in the Incarnation. This, for _all_ men (1 Timothy 2...
THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER (Titus 2:1-10) (1) The Senior Men (Titus 2:1-2)...
FOR. App-104. REDEEM. Greek. _lutroo_. Only here; Luke 24:21; 1 Peter 1:18. FROM. App-104. INIQUITY, App-128. PECELIAR PEOPLE. a people as an acquisition. Greek. _periousios_. Only here. Compare 1...
The sphere of the Apostolate to claim all Life for God, through His Grace, and for His Glory 11 14. The first of the two Evangelical outbursts of that -spring of living water" in St Paul's own heart...
DOCTRINAL GROUND OF THE PRECEDING EXHORTATIONS...
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DISCOURSE: 2263 THE GOSPEL PRODUCTIVE OF HOLINESS Titus 2:11. _The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should li...
A PECULIAR PEOPLE,— The word περιουσιον, rendered _peculiar,_ does not appear to have been used by any of the ancient prophane writers. The LXX seem first to have framed it, in order to express the He...
THE MOTIVES FOR CONDUCT Titus 2:11-15 _TEXT 2:11-15_ 11 For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 12 instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lust...
Who gave himself for us, —Christ came to this earth and lived a perfect and sinless life. He made himself the perfect lamb without blemish.Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from...
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. GAVE HIMSELF - Himself, His whole self, the greatest gift ever...
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...
2:14 gave (m-2) Or 'has given.' Aorist....
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...
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...
WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR us. — (See Galatians 1:4; Ephesians 5:25.) These words take up the thought expressed in the term “Saviour” of the last verse. “Himself,” His whole self, as has been well said, “th...
CHAPTER 23 HOPE AS A MOTIVE POWER-THE PRESENT HOPES OF CHRISTIANS. - Titus 2:11 THERE are not many passages in the Pastoral Epistles which treat so plainly as this does of doctrine. As a rule St. Pau...
The justification of this insistence on the universal necessity for right conduct is the all-embracing scope of the saving grace of God, which has visibly appeared as a call to repentance, a help to a...
HOW WE MAY “ADORN THE DOCTRINE” Titus 2:9 The servants addressed in this tender and priceless paragraph were household slaves, employed in the most menial drudgery, but they were taught that even the...
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...
LOOKING FOR THE LORD The Christian can change his style of living because he has changed his focus. Instead of focusing on the here and now, he is expectantly awaiting the return of the Savior (Titus...
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a (f) peculiar people, zealous of good works. (f) As it were a thing peculiarly laid aside for himself....
_ A people, particularly acceptable. [6] St. Jerome translates an egregious or eminent people. He says in the Septuagint it corresponds to segula, which signifies a man's proper possessions, which he...
(11) В¶ For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, (12) Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this pre...
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...
_A COMPENDIUM OF THE GOSPEL_ ‘For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us … and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.’ Titus 2:11 This...
14_Who gave himself for us_. This is another argument of exhortation, drawn from the design or effect of the death of Christ, who offered himself for us, that he might redeem us from the bondage of si...
"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...
WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US,.... Not another, or another's, but himself; not merely his own things, but his own self; not the world, and the riches of it, not gold and silver, and such like corruptible th...
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Ver. 14. _That he might redeem us_] God will have the price of Ch...
_Looking_ With eager desire and lively expectation; _for the blessed hope_ That is, for the blessedness for which we hope; the grace of hope being here put for the object of it, future and eternal fel...
Our Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave himself a ransom for us, and will be our final Judge, is the great God. As such all should regard him, and ever be governed by his revealed will....
THE GRACE OF SALVATION AND ITS SANCTIFYING POWER....
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...
11-15 The doctrine of grace and salvation by the gospel, is for all ranks and conditions of men. It teaches to forsake sin; to have no more to do with it. An earthly, sensual conversation suits not a...
OLBGrk; WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US; which great God and Saviour Jesus Christ was not only sent and given by the Father, 1 THESSALONIANS 3:16, but freely gave up himself to be incarnate, and to die for us...
1 Clement May God, who seeth all things, and who is the Ruler of all spirits and the Lord of all flesh-who chose our Lord Jesus Christ and us through Him to be a peculiar[258] Epistle of Ignatius to...
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Titus 2:14. FOR US, on our behalf. The design of Christ's self-offering to death was a moral one to set us free by payment of a ransom-price (see the root text in Matthew 20:28) from iniquity (or sin...
WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US (ος εδωκεν εαυτον υπερ ημων). Paul's great doctrine (Galatians 1:4; Galatians 2:20; 1 Timothy 2:6).THAT HE MIGHT REDEEM US (ινα λυτρωσητα). Final clause, ινα and the aoris...
REDEEM SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:24). _...
Titus 2:14 Zeal. I. It is not a quality of nature, but an acquirement of grace, of which the Apostle speaks; for he describes, not what is peculiar to this or that man, but what is common to all con...
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. _...
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 tru...
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...
HE GAVE HIMSELF FOR US. Compare John 10:17-18; 1 Timothy 2:6. He gave himself as _the price_ to buy us from the power and punishment of sin (see 1 Corinthians 6:20; Colossians 1:20). WHO BELONG TO HIM...
_The __GRACE_ _OF_ _GOD_ _THAT_ _BRINGETH_ _SALVATION_ The gospel I. What is here said of its nature. 1. The name. “The grace of God.” 2. The subject “Bringing salvation.” 3. The manifestation. “...
TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 2:11 One cannot truly claim to have received saving grace without also accepting “training grace.” This change in lifestyle is rooted in the atonement (v. Titus 2:14) and the expec...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Titus 2:11. HATH APPEARED.—In an epiphany. The Sun of Righteousness with health in His beams had chased away the “hidden things of darkness.” Like the sun’s light, th...
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...
Vers. 11-14. Taking occasion from what he had just said of the connection between the conduct of Christians and the doctrine they professed to have received, and the connection of both with the glory...
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 thi...
1 John 3:2; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:12; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 Timothy 1:15; 1 Timothy 2:10; 1 Timothy 2:6; 1 Timothy 6:18; 2 Co
Gave himself for us [ε δ ω κ ε ν ε α υ τ ο ν υ π ε ρ η μ ω ν]. See on 1 Timothy 2:6, and comp. Galatians 1:4. Uper on behalf of; not instead of. Might redeem [λ υ τ ρ ω σ η τ α ι]. Only here, Luke 24:...
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 daysta...
Who gave himself for us — To die in our stead. That he might redeem us — Miserable bondslaves, as well from the power and the very being, as from the guilt, of all our sins....
Observe here, 1. The way and manner how Christ came to be our Saviour, he GAVE HIMSELF FOR US. Note, 1. The giver, CHRIST, he gave. 2. The gift, HIMSELF. 3. The persons for whom he gave himself, FOR...