Titus 3:4

3:4 ¹  But “when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,

Titus 2:5

2:5 to be self-controlled, ²  pure, fulfilling their duties at home, ³  kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message ⁴  of God may not be discredited. ⁵ 

Titus 2:1

Conduct Consistent with Sound Teaching

2:1 But as for you, communicate the behavior that goes with ⁶  sound teaching.

Titus 2:14

2:14 He ⁷  gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, ⁸  who are eager to do good. ⁹ 

Titus 2:7

2:7 showing yourself to be an example of good works in every way. In your teaching show integrity, dignity,

Titus 3:7

3:7 And so, ¹⁰  since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.” ¹¹ 

Titus 3:9

3:9 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, ¹²  quarrels, and fights about the law, ¹³  because they are useless and empty.

Titus 1:16

1:16 They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

Titus 3:3

3:3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

¹ tn Verses 4-7 are set as poetry in NA²⁶/NA²⁷. These verses probably constitute the referent of the expression “this saying” in v. 8.

² tn Or “sensible.”

³ tn Grk “domestic,” “keeping house.”

⁴ tn Or “word.”

⁵ tn Or “slandered.”

³ tn Grk “say what is fitting for sound teaching” (introducing the behavior called for in this chapter.).

⁴ tn Grk “who” (as a continuation of the previous clause).

⁵ tn Or “a people who are his very own.”

⁶ tn Grk “for good works.”

⁵ tn This is the conclusion of a single, skillfully composed sentence in Greek encompassing Titus 3:4-7. Showing the goal of God’s merciful salvation, v. 7 begins literally, “in order that, being justified…we might become heirs…”

⁶ tn Grk “heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”

⁶ tn Cf. 1 Tim 1:4.

⁷ sn Fights about the law were characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus as well as in Crete (cf. 1 Tim 1:3-7; Titus 1:10, 14).