Titus 3:1

And admonish them to be submissive and obedient to princes and potentates; and that they be ready for every good work;

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

In Context

2and that they speak ill of no man; that they be not contentious, but mild; and that in every thing they manifest benignity towards all men.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:2and said to them: The Scribes and Pharisees sit in the seat of Moses.

1 Corinthians 15:58Wherefore, my brethren and my beloved, be ye steadfast, and be not vacillating; but be ye at all times abundant in the work of the Lord; seeing ye know, that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Ephesians 2:10For we are his creation; who are created in Jesus the Messiah, for good works, which God hath before prepared for us to walk in.

Matthew Henry on Titus 3:1

Of duties which concern Christians more in common, and the reasons of them, ver. 1-8 . What Titus in teaching should avoid, and how he should deal with a heretic, with some other directions ( ver. 9-14 ), and salutations in the close, ver. 15 . Read the whole commentary →

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