Titus 1:14

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

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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; for which cause rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

15To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but both their mind and conscience are defiled.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:9But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”

Galatians 4:9but now, after having known God, or rather having been known by God, how is it that ye are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments to which ye wish to be again in bondage?

1 Timothy 1:4nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than promote God's dispensation which is in faith, [[so I do now.]]

Hebrews 12:25See that ye refuse not him who speaketh. For if they did not escape, who refused him who spoke his will on earth, much more shall not we, if we turn away from him who speaketh 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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