Titus 1:4

To Titus, my true child in our shared faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Savior, bless you and give you peace.

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In The King James Version

To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

In Context

3and has revealed at his own time in his message, with the preaching of which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior.

5My reason for leaving you in Crete was that you might put in order what had been left unfinished, and appoint church elders in the various towns, as I myself directed you.

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Cross References

Luke 2:11This day there has been born to you, in the town of David, a Savior, who is Christ and Lord.

Romans 1:7To all in Rome who are dear to God and have been called to become Christ’s people, may God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

2 Corinthians 2:13I could get no peace of mind because I failed to find Titus, my friend; so I took leave of the people there, and went on to Macedonia.

2 Corinthians 7:6But God, who encourages the downcast, has encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.

2 Corinthians 8:6And this led us to beg Titus, that since he had started the work for you, he should also see to the completion of this expression of your love.

2 Corinthians 8:23If I must say anything about Titus, he is my intimate companion, and he shares my work for you; if it is our friends, they are delegates of the churches, an honor to Christ.

Matthew Henry on Titus 1:2-5

Titus Completed by Jeremiah Smith . This Epistle of Paul to Titus is much of the same nature with those to Timothy; both were converts of Paul, and his companions in labours and sufferings; both were in the office of evangelists, whose work was to water the churches planted by the apostles, and to set in order the things that were wanting in them: they were vice-apostles, as it were, working the work of the Lord, as they did, and mostly under their direction, though not despotic and arbitrary, but with the… Read the whole commentary →

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