Titus 2:8

sound speech that can not be condemned; that he that is opposed may be ashamed, seeing he has no evil thing to say of us.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

In Context

7in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in teaching, showing incorruptness, gravity,

9Exhort servants to be subject to their own masters, and to please them well in all things, not contradicting,

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Cross References

Mark 12:17And Jesus answered and said to them: Give to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they were astonished at him.

Mark 12:32And the scribe said to him: Teacher, in truth you have well said, that there is one God, and there is no other beside him;

Luke 13:17And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed; and all the multitude rejoiced on account of all the glorious things that were done by him.

2 Thessalonians 3:14And if any one obey not our word by this letter, note that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed;

1 Timothy 6:3If any one teaches other things, and does not assent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teaching which is according to godliness,

Matthew Henry on Titus 2:2-11

Relative Duties. ( a. d. 66.) 1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: 2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. 3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of… Read the whole commentary →

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