Titus 1:16

They profess to know God, but in their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and worthless for every good work.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

In Context

15Truly to the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:22And Samuel said, Has LORD as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

Job 15:16How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

Isaiah 48:1Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness

Jeremiah 6:30Waste silver, men shall call them, because LORD has rejected them.

Hosea 8:2They shall cry to me, My God, we, Israel know thee.

Romans 2:18and know his will, and approve the things that are significant, being instructed out of the law.

Matthew Henry on Titus 1:7-16

The Qualifications of a Bishop; The Necessity of Sharp Reproof. ( a. d. 66.) 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. 7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; 8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort… Read the whole commentary →

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