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Titus 1:16

They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.

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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

15To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:22And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.

Job 15:16How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

Isaiah 48:1Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.

Jeremiah 6:30They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.

Hosea 8:2They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.

Romans 2:18And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning 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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