Titus 1:14
and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs on the truth.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
In Context
13Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith,
Cross References
Matthew 15:9but vainly do they worship me, For they teach but human precepts.’”
Galatians 4:9But now that you have found God – or, rather, have been found by him – how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves?
1 Timothy 1:4nor to devote their attention to legends and interminable genealogies, which tend to give rise to argument rather than to further that divine plan which is revealed in the faith.
Hebrews 12:25Beware how you refuse to hear him who is speaking. For, if the Israelites did not escape punishment, when they refused to listen to him who taught them on earth the divine will, far worse will it be for us, if we turn away from him who is teaching 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 →