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Meet Daily Necessities Titus 3:12-15 As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, because I have decided to winter there. Do everything you can to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way and see that they have everything they need. Our people...

Avoid Divisive Christians Titus 3:9-11 But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. Warn a divisive person once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him. You may be sure...

Saved Unto Good Works Titus 3:8 This is a trustworthy saying. And I want you to stress these things, so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good. These things are excellent and profitable for everyone. While those of a "salvation by works"...

Saved and Reborn by Grace Titus 3:4-7 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously...

The Way We Were Titus 3:3 At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. This is much along the lines of Eph 2:1-3 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and...

Peaceably Submit to Authority Titus 3:1,2 Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and to show true humility toward all men. Many of the commands in the letters has to do...

Eager to Do Good Titus 2:14,15 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you. "We...

Grace says "No" to Ungodliness Titus 2:11-13 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope— the...

Instructions for Subordinates Titus 2:9,10 Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior...

Instructions for Younger Men Titus 2:6-8 Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed...

Instructions for Married Women Titus 2:4,5 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. Older women should be disciplining young women...

Instructions for Older Women Titus 2:3 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—— Here "reverent" is a different word than in verse 2. Here it's allude to sacredness. That is, that their behavior be holy...

Instructions for Older Men Titus 2:1,2 But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience; While there are those who propose that "sound doctrine" is that which is advocated by certain...

2Th 1:8,9 "He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power" John 3:36 "He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he...

One's Actions Reflect One's Faith Titus 1:16 They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good. A person's claim of being a Christian should not solely be the measure as to whether they actually are. For there is a...

The Corrupt Obsess over Rituals and Regulations Titus 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. Become so familiar with the truth, and look to yourselves, keeping...

Pay No Attention to those who Promote Myths Titus 1:14 and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of those who reject the truth. Now while it appears these false teachers were primarily unconverted Cretan Jews, there are elsewhere general commands concerning avoiding myths...

Rebuke Apostates Sharply Titus 1:12,13 Even one of their own prophets has said, "Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons." This testimony is true. Therefore, rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith It's not that Paul was endorsing one of their own prophets...

Silence Apostates Titus 1:10,11 For there are many rebellious people, mere talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision group. They must be silenced, because they are ruining whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach— and that for the sake of dishonest gain...

Yeh, I know. Those are largely Catholics who make such objections. As I see it Catholicism is fundamentally a different religion than Biblical Christianity. They're about as far from Biblical Christianity as is Islam though not in the same ways. But of course for some stupid reason one is not...