Titus 1:13

American Standard Version (1901)

This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

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  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.
  • Titus 2:2 : 2 that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:
  • Titus 2:15 : 15 These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
  • 1 Tim 5:20 : 20 Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
  • 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
  • 1 Tim 4:6 : 6 If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed [until now] :
  • Lev 19:17 : 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
  • Ps 119:80 : 80 Let my heart be perfect in thy statutes, That I be not put to shame.
  • Ps 141:5 : 5 Let the righteous smite me, [it shall be] a kindness; And let him reprove me, [it shall be as] oil upon the head; Let not my head refuse it: For even in their wickedness shall my prayer continue.
  • Prov 27:5 : 5 Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden.
  • 2 Cor 7:8-9 : 8 For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret [it] (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season), 9 I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, [a repentance] which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 11 For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter. 12 So although I wrote unto you, I [wrote] not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

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    9holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.

    10For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,

    11whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

    12One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.

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    7in all things showing thyself an ensample of good works; in thy doctrine [showing] uncorruptness, gravity,

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    19holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith:

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    3As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

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    14Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

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    15These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

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