Titus 1:13
This testimony is true. Because of this, rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 19:17You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but reprove him openly, lest you have sin over him.
Psalms 141:5I considered toward the right, and I looked, but there was no one who would know me. Flight has perished before me, and there is no one who has concern for my soul.
2 Corinthians 7:8For though I made you sorrowful by my epistle, I do not repent. And if I did repent, but only for a time, having realized that the same epistle made you sorrowful,
1 Timothy 4:6By proposing these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished by words of faith, and by the good doctrine that you have secured.
2 Timothy 4:2that you should preach the word urgently, in season and out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke, with all patience and doctrine.
Titus 2:15Speak and exhort and argue these things with all authority. Let no one despise you.
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 →