Titus 1:9

holding — according to the teaching — to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

Young's Literal Translation

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 a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

10for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers — especially they of the circumcision —

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Cross References

Job 27:6On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.

Acts 18:28for powerfully the Jews he was refuting publicly, shewing through the Writings Jesus to be the Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:21all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

1 Timothy 1:10whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

1 Timothy 1:19having faith and a good conscience, which certain having thrust away, concerning the faith did make shipwreck,

1 Timothy 6:3if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words — those of our Lord Jesus Christ — and to the teaching according to piety,

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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