Titus 1:13

And this testimony is true. Therefore chide them sharply; that they may be sound in the faith,

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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, said, The Cretans are always mendacious, evil beasts, idle bellies.

14and may not throw themselves into Jewish fables, and into the precepts of men who hate the truth.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 7:8And although I made you sad by the epistle, I do not regret it, though I did regret it; for I see that that epistle, though for a time it made you sad,

1 Timothy 4:6If thou shalt inculcate these things on thy brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Jesus the Messiah, being educated in the language of the faith, and in the good doctrine which thou hast been taught.

2 Timothy 4:2Proclaim the word; and persist in it with diligence, in time and out of time; admonish, and rebuke, with all patience and instructiveness.

Titus 2:15These things speak thou, and exhort, and inculcate, with all authority; and let no one 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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