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Verse Titus 1:16. _THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD_] He still speaks
concerning the unbelieving Jews, the seducing teachers, and those who
had been seduced by their bad doctrine. None were so full of...
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THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD - That is, the Jewish teachers
particularly, who are referred to in Titus 1:14. All those persons
were professors of religion, and claimed that they had a special
knowl...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS
CHAPTER 1
_ 1. The salutation (Titus 1:1)_
2. Instructions concerning elders (Titus 1:5)
3. Warnings against false teachers (Titus 1:10)
Tit...
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TITUS-' ATTITUDE TO FALSE TEACHERS. Loyalty to sound doctrine is
needful for silencing many deceitful teachers not outside the Church
(Hort), but self-constituted instructors within its borders, who
r...
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THE MAINSPRINGS OF APOSTLESHIP (Titus 1:1-4)...
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PROFESS. Greek. _homologea_. Compare Romans 10:9; Romans 10:10.
KNOW, App-132.
IN. by. No preposition.
DENY. Greek. _arneomai_. See Titus 2:12. Compare 2 Timothy 2:12; 2
Timothy 3:5.
ABOMINABLE. G...
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_They profess that they know God_ Vulg. -confitentur"; -profess" is
retained by R.V., though its modern sense is more generally -pretend":
the Greek is -openly acknowledge," and the word is used of th...
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THE HERETICAL TEACHERS AND TITUS’ DUTY IN REGARD TO THEM...
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ΌΜΟΛΟΓΟΎΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΌΜΟΛΟΓΈΩ
(G3670) исповедовать, проповедовать.
ΕΊΔΈΝΑΙ _perf. act. inf. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) знать.
Def. perf. со значением _praes._ Инфинитив как
дополнение к предшеству...
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FALSE PROFESSORS DESCRIBED
Titus 1:16. _They profess that they know God; but in works they deny
him_.
AT a time when the profession of godliness is everywhere abounding, it
is of pec...
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THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD,— This was their grand pretence for
Christianity, and opposing St. Paul; namely, that they best understood
the revelation of the mind and will of God in the gospel, as...
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THE DESCRIPTION AND REFUTATION OF FALSE TEACHERS Titus 1:10-16.
_TEXT 1:10-16_
10 For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers,
specially they of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must...
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They profess that they know God; but in works they deny [him], being
abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
—There are many who profess to be servants of God but fail to obey...
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They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being
abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
THEY PROFESS - i:e., make a profession acknowledging God. They ha...
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1 Paul writes this letter in the character of a slave. This shows that
the epistle deals with service. He adds the title apostle, to give
weight to his injunctions.
2 Eonian life, usually called "eve...
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GREETING. DIRECTIONS FOR ORGANISING THE CRETAN CHURCH
1-16. 'Paul an Apostle, to Titus his own son in the faith. In
appointing elders in the towns of Crete, see to their character, and
be sure that t...
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A GUIDE FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERS
TITUS
_HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_
ABOUT THIS LETTER
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT TITUS
Titus was a *Gentile Christian (Galatians 2:3). Titus had probably
become a Christi...
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THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD; BUT IN WORKS THEY DENY HIM. — These
bitter foes to the truth, Titus must remember, will present themselves
under the guise of friends. They will rank themselves in the...
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I have just mentioned rebuke as a necessary element in a presbyter's
teaching. This is especially needful in dealing with Cretan heretics,
in whom the Jewish strain is disagreeably prominent. Alike in...
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REPROVE THOSE WHOSE WORKS DENY GOD
Titus 1:10
The Judaizing teachers, who insisted that men must become Jews before
they could be Christians, were always on Paul's heels, visiting his
churches and d...
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Titus is not mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. From the letter we
learn that he was a convert of the apostle. Moreover, we know that he
was a Greek.
This letter reached him while he was in Crete...
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SILENCE THE FALSE TEACHERS
Elders must be able to silence, as when wind instruments cease to
play, such false teachings (Titus 1:11). To stop them, they may answer
them or deny them the pulpit, or bo...
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_They confess that they know God. He speaks not therefore of those who
were properly infidels, without the knowledge of the true God; so that
it is foolish to pretend from hence, that every action of...
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(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...
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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...
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16_They profess that they know God _He treats those persons as they
deserve; for hypocrites, who give their whole attention to minute
observances, despise fearlessly what constitutes the chief part of...
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The Epistle to Titus is occupied with the maintenance of order in the
churches of God.
The especial object of those written to Timothy as the maintenance of
sound doctrine, although speaking of other...
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THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD,.... That there is a God; that there
is but one, only, true, and living God, the God of Israel, as
professed by the Jews; and that this God is Father, Son, and Spirit,...
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They profess that they know God; but in works they deny _him_, being
abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Ver. 16. _They profess that they know_] _Aliud in titulo, aliud i...
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_Unto the pure_ Namely, believers whose hearts are purified by faith,
Acts 15:9; _all things are pure_ All kinds of meats are lawful to be
used; _but unto them that are defiled_ Who are still under th...
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IN WORKS THEY DENY HIM; they show that they have no such knowledge.
Their words and works disagree.
UNTO EVERY GOOD WORK REPROBATE; rejected as men given over to
iniquity, from whom no good work is t...
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THE FALSE TEACHERS CHARACTERIZED AND THE QUESTION OF HOW TO DEAL WITH
THEM DISCUSSED....
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Paul writes both as a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
so that in the epistle considerate care is mingled with firm
authority. His basis of writing is, first, the faith of God's elect;
t...
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REPROBATE:
Or, void of judgment...
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10-16 False teachers are described. Faithful ministers must oppose
such in good time, that their folly being made manifest, they may go
no further They had a base end in what they did; serving a worl...
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OLBGrk;
THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD; he is speaking of the Jews, who (all
of them) professed to know and to believe one living and true God. BUT
IN WORKS THEY DENY HIM; but they lived like atheis...
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV " For who of those who are wise
would not choose to reign in God, and even to serve? So some "confess
that they know God," according to the apostle; "but in work...
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Titus 1:16 profess G3670 (G5719) know G1492 (G5760) God G2316 but
G1161 works G2041 deny G720 (G5736) being G5607 (G5752) abominable
G947 G2532 disobedient G545 and G2532 disqualified G96 for G4314 ev...
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Titus 1:16. It was part of the religious ‘confession' of these
errorists, that the knowledge of God was their own (in an exceptional
degree?) _;_ practically they denied what in words they confessed....
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THEY PROFESS
(ομολογουσιν). Present active indicative of
ομολογεω, common verb (ομου, λεγω) as in Romans 10:10.
Ειδενα (know) is second perfect active infinitive of οιδα in
indirect assertion.BY TH...
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While reading this chapter, we must understand that Titus was sent to
Crete, to superintend the preaching of the gospel throughout that
island. Crete was at that time inhabited by a people who were on...
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CONTENTS: Divine order for local churches.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Titus.
CONCLUSION: Divine faith rests not on fallible reasonings and opinions
of men, but on the infallible Word of God, the...
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Titus 1:1. _Paul, a servant of God,_ and not a servant of Moses. This
style is much the same as in 2 Timothy 1:1, respecting the promise of
eternal life. This promise is _according to the faith of God...
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BUT THEIR ACTIONS DENY IT. They boasted about God (compare Romans
2:17), but their unholy lives proved they did not know Him! See also 2
Timothy 3:1-9....
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_They __PROFESS_ _THAT_ _THEY_ _KNOW_ _GOD_
Conventional Christians
I. Conventional Christians are professional atheists.
II. Conventional Christians are practical atheists.
1. They deny God’s aut...
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TITUS—NOTE ON TITUS 1:10 The Problem: False Teachers. The
description of the false teachers contrasts directly with the
descriptions of what the elders should be (vv. Titus 1:5).
⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = d...
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
Titus 1:15. UNTO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE.—This saying
concentrates all the opposition to fictitious holiness and purity
which made the apostle the object of the...
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EXPOSITION
TITUS 1:1
_Knowledge _for _acknowledging, _A.V.; _according to _for _after,
_A.V. A SERVANT OF GOD (δοῦλος Θεοῦ); so in the
superscriptions: Romans 1:1; Philippians 1:1, Ἰησοῦ
Χριστοῦ...
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Ver. 16. The description is wound up by a fearful announcement of
their morally shipwrecked and hopeless condition: _they confess that
they know God, but in works deny [Him] being abominable and
disob...
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Not much is known about Titus. Paul makes slight references to him in
the Corinthian epistles. Outside of that we know very little about
Titus, except what we can pick up in the book. Evidently he was...
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1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Samuel 15:24; 1 Timothy 1:9; 2 Timothy 3:5; 2
Timothy 3:8; Ephesians 5:6; Ezekiel 33:31; Hosea 8:2; Hosea 8:3;
Isaiah 29:13;
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They profess (oJmologousin). Better, confess. See on 2 Corinthians
9:13, and comp. 1 Timothy 6:12. Not loudly and publicly profess (as
Huther), but confess as opposed to deny (John 1:20); comp. Hebrew...
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THE EPISTLE TO TITUS
Titus 1:1 _and Titus 2:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The Epistle of Paul to Titus carries with it some very striking
"admonitions which will be found most helpful to us. Titus was a yo...
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Behold here the dismal character of many hypocritical persons in the
Jewish church. They professed the knowledge of God, the true God, but
in their works, in their actions, they denied him, and so bec...