Titus 1:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

This witness is true. So say sharp words to them so that they may come to the right faith,

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  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 For this cause I am writing these things while I am away, so that there may be need for me, when I am present, to make use of sharp measures, by the authority which the Lord has given me for building up and not for destruction.
  • Titus 2:2 : 2 That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind.
  • Titus 2:15 : 15 On all these points give teaching and help, and make clear what is right with all authority. Let all men give you honour.
  • 1 Tim 5:20 : 20 Say sharp words to sinners when all are present, so that the rest may be in fear.
  • 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 Be preaching the word at all times, in every place; make protests, say sharp words, give comfort, with long waiting and teaching;
  • 1 Tim 4:6 : 6 If you keep these things before the minds of the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the right teaching which has been your guide:
  • Lev 19:17 : 17 Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.
  • Ps 119:80 : 80 Let all my heart be given to your orders, so that I may not be put to shame.
  • Ps 141:5 : 5 Let the upright give me punishment; and let the god-fearing man put me in the right way; but I will not let the oil of sinners come on my head: when they do evil I will give myself to prayer.
  • Prov 27:5 : 5 Better is open protest than love kept secret.
  • 2 Cor 7:8-9 : 8 For though my letter gave you pain, I have no regret for it now, though I had before; for I see that the letter gave you pain, but only for a time. 9 Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything. 10 For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death. 11 For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business. 12 So though I sent you a letter, it was not only because of the man who did the wrong, or because of him to whom the wrong was done, but so that your true care for us might be made clear in the eyes of God.

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    14 Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.

    15 To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.

    16 They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.

  • Titus 1:9-12
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    9 Keeping to the true word of the teaching, so that he may be able to give comfort by right teaching and overcome the arguments of the doubters.

    10 For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,

    11 By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

    12 One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work.

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    13 Keep the form of those true words which you had from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

  • Titus 2:1-2
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    1 But let your words be in agreement with true and right teaching:

    2 That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind.

  • Titus 3:8
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    8 This is a true saying; and it is my desire that you may give certain witness about these things, so that those who have had faith in God may give attention to good works. These things are good and of profit to men;

  • Titus 2:7-8
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    7 In all things see that you are an example of good works; holy in your teaching, serious in behaviour,

    8 Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us.

  • Jude 1:3-4
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    3 My loved ones, while my thoughts were full of a letter which I was going to send you about our common salvation, it was necessary for me to send you one requesting you with all my heart to go on fighting strongly for the faith which has been given to the saints once and for ever.

    4 For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Tim 1:19-20
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    19 Keeping faith, and being conscious of well-doing; for some, by not doing these things, have gone wrong in relation to the faith:

    20 Such are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given up to Satan, so that they may say no more evil words against God.

  • 1 Tim 1:3-6
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    3 It was my desire, when I went on into Macedonia, that you might make a stop at Ephesus, to give orders to certain men not to put forward a different teaching,

    4 Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;

    5 But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

    6 From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;

  • 2 Tim 2:14-15
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    14 Put these things before them, giving them orders in the name of the Lord to keep themselves from fighting about words, which is of no profit, only causing error in their hearers.

    15 Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.

  • Titus 2:15
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    15 On all these points give teaching and help, and make clear what is right with all authority. Let all men give you honour.

  • 1 Tim 5:20
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    20 Say sharp words to sinners when all are present, so that the rest may be in fear.

  • 1 Tim 4:6
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    6 If you keep these things before the minds of the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the right teaching which has been your guide:

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    12 For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith.

  • 3 John 1:12
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    12 Demetrius has the approval of all men and of what is true: and we give the same witness, and you are certain that our witness is true.

  • 1 Tim 6:21
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    21 Through which some, who gave their minds to it, have been turned away from the faith. Grace be with you.

  • 2 Tim 2:25
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    25 Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,

  • 2 Tim 2:18
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    18 Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.

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    8 And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false.

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    2 Be preaching the word at all times, in every place; make protests, say sharp words, give comfort, with long waiting and teaching;

  • 1 Tim 1:10
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    10 For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,

  • Titus 2:10
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    10 Not taking what is not theirs, but giving clear signs of their good faith, in all things doing credit to the teaching of God our Saviour.

  • 2 Tim 4:4
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    4 And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

  • Jude 1:17
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    17 But you, my loved ones, keep in memory the words which were said before by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • Jude 1:10
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    10 But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

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    5 I did not take you with me when I went away from Crete, so that you might do what was necessary to put things in order there, placing men in authority over the churches in every town, as I said to you;

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    3 If any man gives different teaching, not in agreement with the true words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the teaching which is in agreement with true religion,

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    4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

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    9 For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

  • 1 Tim 4:11
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    11 Let these be your orders and your teaching.

  • Titus 3:10-11
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    10 A man whose opinions are not those of the church, after a first and second protest, is to be kept out of your society;

    11 Clearly he is in error and a sinner, being self-judged.

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    8 Because we are able to do nothing against what is true, but only for it.

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    13 So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

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    9 Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

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    12 And they are judged because they have been false to their first faith;

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    15 So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,