Titus 1:9

Devoted to the faithful hatafah (preaching) of the Besuras HaGeulah, adequate for hora'ah (teaching) that exhorts to + 1:9 Moshiachʼs orthodox Jewish doctrine and for refuting and exposing with conviction the ones speaking against it.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

In Context

8Rather, the Mashgiach Ruchani must be one who practices hachnosas orchim (hospitality), an ohev es haTov (a lover of the good), having seichel, a tzaddik, kadosh (holy), with shlitah atzmi (self-control),

10For there are indeed many mitnaggedim (opponents), idle talkers and deceivers, especially the ones of the party of the Mohalim HaGoyim (false teacher Circumcisers of Gentiles),

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Cross References

Job 27:6My tzedakah I hold fast, and will not let it go; 1 my lev shall not reproach for any of my days. 1

Acts 18:28For Rav Apollos was publicly and powerfully refuting the [unbelieving] Yehudim, showing through the Kitvei HaKodesh that Yehoshua is the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

1 Thessalonians 5:21But test kol davar (everything); hold fast to haTov.

1 Timothy 1:10Zannayim (fornicators), shochvim es zachar (homosexuals), gonvei nefesh + 1:10 Ex 21:16 (kidnapper, slave dealers), shakranim (liars), nishba'im lasheker (perjurers) and whatever else is keneged (against) sound orthodox torah, + 1:10 Moshiachʼs Torah in correct Messianic teaching

1 Timothy 1:19Holding emunah and a clear matzpun (conscience), which some persons, + 1:19 1:3 because they pushed aside a clear matzpun, + 1:19 1:5 have suffered shipwreck in the + 1:19 Orthodox Jewish emunah.

1 Timothy 6:3If anyone teaches heterodoxy (a doctrine that has a chiluk or difference) and does not agree with the orthodox Jewish teaching of Yehoshua the Moshiach Adoneinu and with torah conforming to chasidus,

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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