Titus 1:4

to Titus, my genuine son after the common faith, be grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

In Context

3but hath manifested in his own appointed season his word by the preaching, with which I have been entrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God;

5For this purpose I left thee behind me at Crete, that thou mightest direct the regulations which remained to be executed, and that thou shouldest appoint presbyters in every city, as I charged thee to do:

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Cross References

Luke 2:11Because this day there is born for you a Saviour, which is Messiah, the Lord, in the city of David.

Romans 1:7To all that are at Rome, beloved of God, called saints, grace unto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:13I had no test in my spirit on my not finding there Titus my brother: so taking my leave of them I went forth unto Macedonia.

2 Corinthians 7:6But God that comforteth the lowly comforted us by the coming of Titus:

2 Corinthians 8:6So that we exhorted Titus, that as he had been active before, so also he would perfect in you this grace also.

2 Corinthians 8:23If any inquire concerning Titus, he is my companion and fellow-labourer to you; or our brethren be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.

Matthew Henry on Titus 1:2-5

Titus Completed by Jeremiah Smith . This Epistle of Paul to Titus is much of the same nature with those to Timothy; both were converts of Paul, and his companions in labours and sufferings; both were in the office of evangelists, whose work was to water the churches planted by the apostles, and to set in order the things that were wanting in them: they were vice-apostles, as it were, working the work of the Lord, as they did, and mostly under their direction, though not despotic and arbitrary, but with the… Read the whole commentary →

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