Titus 3:10
Some people teach things that are different from God’s true message. They get Christians to fight with each other, so you have to tell those people to stop. You might even have to tell them 2 times. And if they don’t stop after you tell them 2 times, then leave them and don’t have anything more to do with them.
Plain English Version
In The King James Version
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
In Context
Cross References
Romans 16:17Listen, my Christian friends, I’m telling you straight, you’ve got to be really careful about people that make you split up and argue with each other. Remember that you heard the true message about Jesus Christ, and you learned to follow his way, but there are some people that want you to leave that way and go another way. They tell you a different story, and they get you to argue with each other. So don’t listen to them. Keep away from them.
1 Corinthians 11:19Look, I know some of you will split up into groups, but when you do, you have to let God show you who is right.
Galatians 5:12Do you know what I think about those people that are getting you all mixed up? I wish they will cut their own bodies, not yours.
2 Thessalonians 3:6Listen, Christian friends, Jesus Christ, our leader, wants us to tell you this. If anyone says they are a Christian, but they sit down and never want to do any work, you have to keep away from that person. Remember when we were with you. Think about what we were like. We didn’t sit around doing nothing. And we told you, “Don’t be lazy.” We want you to live the way we lived when we were with you.
2 Timothy 3:5They will reckon they respect God, but they will reckon that he hasn’t got any power. So I’m telling you, keep right away from those people.
2 John 1:10Maybe somebody will come to your church to teach a message, but their message is not true. Maybe they don’t teach the things that Jesus said. Don’t let them come to your house. Don’t even say hello to them, and don’t be friendly to them.
Matthew Henry on Titus 3:10-15
The Treatment of Heretics; Apostolic Benediction. ( a. d. 66.) 9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. 10 A man that is a heretic after the first and second admonition reject; 11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. 12 When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter. 13 Bring Zenas the lawyer and… Read the whole commentary →