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, ¹  since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.” ² 

Titus 3:9

3:9 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, ³  quarrels, and fights about the law, ⁴  because they are useless and empty.

[3:7]  ¹ 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…”

[3:7]  ² tn Grk “heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”

[3:9]  ¹ tn Cf. 1 Tim 1:4.

[3:9]  ² 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).