Titus 1:14

Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men, who turn themselves away from the truth.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

In Context

13This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

15All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:9And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.

Galatians 4:9But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by God: how turn you again to the weak and needy elements, which you desire to serve again?

1 Timothy 1:4Not to give heed to fables and endless genealogies: which furnish questions rather than the edification of God, which is in faith.

Hebrews 12:25See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon the earth, much more shall not we, that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

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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