Titus 1:9

holding firm the faithful word according to the teaching, so that he may also be able to exhort by the sound doctrine, and to correct those who contradict.

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In The King James Version

Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

In Context

8but a lover of strangers, a lover of good, serious minded, just, devout, self-controlled,

10For there are also many insubordinate men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those from circumcision,

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Cross References

Job 27:6I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.

Acts 18:28For he forcibly refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the scriptures Jesus to be the Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:21but examine all things. Hold firm the good.

1 Timothy 1:10for fornicators, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine

1 Timothy 1:19Holding faith and a good conscience, which some, having put away, made shipwreck about the faith,

1 Timothy 6:3If any man teaches something different, and does not associate with wholesome words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to piety,

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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