Titus 1:16

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their actions. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for doing any good work.

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They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

In Context

15To those who are pure, all things are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and their consciences have been corrupted.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:22Samuel replied, “Has Yahweh as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Obedience is better than sacrifice, and to listen is better than the fat of rams.

Job 15:16how much less clean is one who is abominable and corrupt, 1 a man who drinks iniquity like water! 1

Isaiah 48:1Hear this, house of Jacob, 1 who are called by the name Israel, and have come from the sperm of Judah; 1 you who swear by the name of Yahweh and invoke the God of Israel, 1 but not sincerely nor in a righteous manner. 1

Jeremiah 6:30They will be called rejected silver, for Yahweh has rejected them.”

Hosea 8:2They cry out to me, 1 'My God, we in Israel know you.' 1

Romans 2:18and know his will and approve of what is excellent because you have been instructed from the law;

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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