Titus 1:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ προσέχοντες Ἰουδαϊκοῖς μύθοις, καὶ ἐντολαῖς ἀνθρώπων, ἀποστρεφομένων τὴν ἀλήθειαν.

Transliteration

Not prosechontes Ioudaikois mythois, and entolais anthrōpōn, apostrephomenōn tēn alētheian.

Grammar Details

*Mē*: negative particle - not
*prosechontes*: present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - paying attention to
*Ioudaikois*: dative, masculine, plural - Jewish
*mythois*: dative, masculine, plural - myths/fables
*kai*: conjunction - and
*entolais*: dative, feminine, plural - commandments
*anthrōpōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of men/humans
*apostrephomenōn*: present, middle, participle, genitive, masculine, plural - turning away from
*tēn alētheian*: accusative, feminine, singular - the truth

Word Meanings

*prosechontes*: paying attention to/devoting themselves to/giving heed to
*Ioudaikois mythois*: Jewish myths/legends/fables
*entolais anthrōpōn*: commandments of men/human rules
*apostrephomenōn*: turning away from/rejecting/deserting
*alētheian*: truth/reality

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Col 2:22 : 22 (all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men?
2 Tim 4:4 : 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.
Heb 12:25 : 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned [them] on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away from him that [warneth] from heaven:
2 Pet 2:22 : 22 {G1161} It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.
1 Tim 1:4-7 : 4 neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; [so do I now]. 5 But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned: 6 from which things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking; 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.
Isa 29:13 : 13 And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh [unto me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught [them];
Matt 15:9 : 9 But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.
Mark 7:7 : 7 But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.
Gal 4:9 : 9 but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

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