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Titus 1:10-16

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

10. For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: 11. Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake. 12. One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians [are] alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. 13. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; 14. Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. 15. Unto the pure all things [are] pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. 16. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

Titus 1:10-16 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Titus 1:10

Theological / Devotional

For. Paul now explains his reason for emphasizing the high moral and intellectual standards that should govern the selection of church leaders. The Cretan church apparently had an above average number of false teachers who accentuated some of the basic weaknesses of the Cretan inhabitants (see on v. 12).

Unruly. See on v. 6. Nominal church members who refused cooperation were factious, opinionated, and insubordinate.

Vain talkers. Compare 1 Tim. 1:6.

Deceivers. Compare 2 Peter 2:3, 18, 19.

Of the circumcision. That is, of Jewish extraction, perhaps akin to the perverted “teachers of the law” (see on 1 Tim. 1:7), who maintained the necessity of circumcision and other rites and ceremonies of the Mosaic law (see Vol. VI, p. 932).

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