Titus 1:13

And true is this testimony. Wherefore reprove them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

In Context

12One of them, a prophet of their own, hath said, The sons of Kreta are always liars, evil beasts, and lazy bellies.

14nor cast themselves to the fables of the Jihudoyee, and to the mandates of men who hate the truth.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 7:8For though I grieved you in an epistle, I repent me not, though I did repent. For I perceive how that epistle, though for an hour, did make you sorry;

1 Timothy 4:6These if thou shalt teach thy brethren, a good minister wilt thou be of Jeshu Meshiha, while thou wilt be enlarged with words of faith and of the good doctrine which thou hast learned.

2 Timothy 4:2preach the word, and stand with diligence in season, and (that) which is not season; confute, and rebuke with all prolongedness of mind and doctrine.

Titus 2:15These speak, and require, and maintain with all authority, and no man shall despise thee.

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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