Titus 1:9

Holding fast that faithfull worde according to doctrine, that he also may bee able to exhort with wholesome doctrine, and conuince them that say against it.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

8But harberous, one that loueth goodnesse, wise, righteous, holy, temperate,

10For there are many disobedient and vaine talkers and deceiuers of mindes, chiefly they of the Circumcision,

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Cross References

Job 27:6I will keepe my righteousnesse, and wil not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprooue me of my dayes.

Acts 18:28For mightily hee confuted publikely the Iewes, with great vehemencie, shewing by the Scriptures, that Iesus was that Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:21Try all things, and keepe that which is good.

1 Timothy 1:10To whoremongers, to buggerers, to menstealers, to lyers, to the periured, and if there be any other thing, that is contrary to wholesome doctrine,

1 Timothy 1:19Hauing faith and a good conscience, which some haue put away, and as concerning faith, haue made shipwracke.

1 Timothy 6:3If any man teach otherwise, and consenteth not to the wholesome wordes of our Lord Iesus Christ, and to the doctrine, which is according to godlinesse,

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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