Titus 1:15
To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
American Standard Version
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In Context
14not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
Cross References
Proverbs 21:4A high look, and a proud heart, [Even] the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Zechariah 7:5Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh [month], even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
Luke 11:39And the Lord said unto him, Now ye the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
Romans 14:14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Romans 14:23But he that doubteth is condemned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith; and whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
1 Corinthians 8:7Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of] a thing sacrificed 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 →