Titus 1:15

To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and conscience are defiled.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

In Context

14not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, who turn away from the truth.

16They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and for every good work reprobate.

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Cross References

Luke 11:39And the Lord said to him: Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of rapacity and wickedness.

Romans 14:14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; but to him that accounts anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Romans 14:23And he that doubts is condemned if he eat, because it is not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.

1 Corinthians 8:7But there is not in all men this knowledge; for some, with a consciousness till now of the idol, eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

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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