Titus 1:14

and not give heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men that turn away from the truth.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

In Context

13This testimony is true; wherefore rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,

15To the pure, all things are pure: but to the denied and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and their conscience are denied.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:9But in vain, do they worship me, teaching precepts, the commandments of men.

Galatians 4:9now, however, after having known God, rather indeed having been known by God, how is it that you are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments, to which you desire again to be in bondage, as at first?

1 Timothy 1:4nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which produce disputes rather than godly edification, which is in faith;

Hebrews 12:25See that you reject not him that speaks: for if they escaped not who rejected that earthly man who gave the oracles, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that is from heaven,

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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