Titus 1:15

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

In Context

14and not give heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men that turn away from the truth.

16They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny him, being detestable and disobedient, and, as it respects every good work, rejected.

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Cross References

Luke 11:39And the Lord said to him: Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the plate; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

Romans 14:14I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; but if any one thinks that any thing is unclean, to him it is unclean.

Romans 14:23But he that doubts is condemned, if he eat, because he eats not with faith. Every thing that is not of faith, is sin.

1 Corinthians 8:7But all have not this knowledge; for some, under the persuasion that an idol is a reality, even yet eat meat, as if it were offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak, is defiled.

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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