Titus 1:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Col 2:22 : 22 (Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?
  • 2 Tim 4:4 : 4 And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?
  • 2 Pet 2:22 : 22 They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.
  • 1 Tim 1:4-7 : 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; 7 Desiring to be teachers of the law, though they have no knowledge of what they say or of the statements which they make so certainly.
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
  • Matt 15:9 : 9 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
  • Mark 7:7 : 7 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

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  • 1 Tim 1:3-7
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    3It 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,

    4Or 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;

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

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

    7Desiring to be teachers of the law, though they have no knowledge of what they say or of the statements which they make so certainly.

  • Titus 1:13
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    13This witness is true. So say sharp words to them so that they may come to the right faith,

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

  • Titus 1:15-16
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    15To 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.

    16They 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.

  • 1 Tim 4:6-7
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    6If 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:

    7But have nothing to do with unclean and foolish stories. Give yourself training in religion:

  • Heb 13:9
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    9Do 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.

  • 2 Tim 2:14-16
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    14Put 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.

    15Let 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.

    16But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,

  • 1 Tim 6:20
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    20O Timothy, take good care of that which is given to you, turning away from the wrong and foolish talk and arguments of that knowledge which is falsely so named;

  • Titus 3:9-10
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    9But have nothing to do with foolish questionings, and lists of generations, and fights and arguments about the law; for they are of no profit and foolish.

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

  • Titus 1:9-10
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    9Keeping 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.

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

  • 1 Tim 6:5
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    5Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

  • 1 Tim 4:3
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    3Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

  • 2 Tim 3:5
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    5Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

  • Eph 4:14
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    14So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

  • Col 2:21-22
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    21Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,

    22(Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?

  • Titus 2:10
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    10Not 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.

  • Mark 7:7-8
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    7But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

    8For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.

  • 2 Pet 1:16
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    16For when we gave you news of the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our teaching was not based on stories put together by art, but we were eye-witnesses of his glory.

  • Gal 1:6-7
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    6I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;

    7Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.

  • 2 Tim 3:7-8
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    7Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.

    8And 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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    14But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?

  • 2 Cor 4:2
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    2And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For 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.

  • Col 2:8
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    8Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

  • Acts 15:19
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    19For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God;

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

  • 1 Tim 6:3
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    3If 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,

  • Gal 5:7
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    7You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?

  • Eph 4:17
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    17This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

  • Acts 15:24
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    24Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;

  • 1 Thess 1:9
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    9For 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,

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

  • Rom 16:17
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    17Now, it is my desire, brothers, that you will take note of those who are causing division and trouble among you, quite against the teaching which was given to you: and keep away from them.

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

  • 2 John 1:8
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    8Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.