Titus 1:9

embracing faithful speech which is in agreement with doctrine, so that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to argue against those who contradict.

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In The King James Version

Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

In Context

8but instead: hospitable, kind, sober, just, holy, chaste,

10For there are, indeed, many who are disobedient, who speak empty words, and who deceive, especially those who are of the circumcision.

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Cross References

Job 27:6I will not forsake my justification, which I have just begun to grasp, for my heart does not find blame for me in my whole life.

Acts 18:28For he was vehemently and publicly reproving the Jews, by revealing through the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:21But test all things. Hold on to whatever is good.

1 Timothy 1:10for fornicators, for males who sleep with males, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

1 Timothy 1:19holding to faith and good conscience, against those who, by rejecting these things, have made a shipwreck of the faith.

1 Timothy 6:3If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to that doctrine which is in accord with piety,

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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