Titus 1:9

clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers.

Darby Translation

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 hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,

10For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of [the] circumcision,

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Cross References

Job 27:6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth [me] not one of my days.

Acts 18:28For he with great force convinced the Jews publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:21but prove all things, hold fast the right;

1 Timothy 1:10fornicators, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers; and if any other thing is opposed to sound teaching,

1 Timothy 1:19maintaining faith and a good conscience; which [last] some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;

1 Timothy 6:3If any one teach differently, and do not accede to sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching which [is] according to 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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