Titus 1:2

in the hope of the eternal life that God, who does not lie, promised before the ages of time,

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In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

In Context

1Paul, a servant of God and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in accord with the faith of God’s elect and in acknowledgment of the truth which is accompanied by piety,

3which, at the proper time, he has manifested by his Word, in the preaching that has been entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior;

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Cross References

Numbers 23:19God is not like a man, so that he would lie, nor is he like a son of man, so that he would be changed. Therefore, having spoken, will he not act? Has he ever spoken, and not fulfilled?

Proverbs 8:23I was ordained from eternity, and out of antiquity, before the earth was formed.

Matthew 25:46And these shall go into eternal punishment, but the just shall go into eternal life.”

Mark 10:30who will not receive one hundred times as much, now in this time: houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land, with persecutions, and in the future age eternal life.

John 5:39Study the Scriptures. For you think that in them you have eternal life. And yet they also offer testimony about me.

John 6:68Therefore, Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?”

Matthew Henry on Titus 1:2-5

Titus Completed by Jeremiah Smith . This Epistle of Paul to Titus is much of the same nature with those to Timothy; both were converts of Paul, and his companions in labours and sufferings; both were in the office of evangelists, whose work was to water the churches planted by the apostles, and to set in order the things that were wanting in them: they were vice-apostles, as it were, working the work of the Lord, as they did, and mostly under their direction, though not despotic and arbitrary, but with the… Read the whole commentary →

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