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2 in hope of eternal life which God, who acannot lie, promised before time began,  
3 but has in due time manifested His word through preaching, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;
4 To aTitus, a true son in our common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and1 the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.  

Qualified Elders

5 For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should aset in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you—  
6 if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, ahaving faithful children not accused of1 dissipation or insubordination.  
7 For a1 bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, anot given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,  
8 but hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled,
9 holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.

The Elders’ Task

10 For there are many insubordinate, both idle atalkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,  
11 whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, afor the sake of dishonest gain.  
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Titus 1:4

My true child (gnhsiw teknw). See I Timothy 1:2 for this adjective with Timothy. Titus is not mentioned in Acts, possibly because he is Luke's brother. But one can get a clear picture of him by turning to II Corinthians 2:13; II Corinthians 7:6-15; 8:6-24; II Corinthians 12:16-18; Galatians 2:1-3; Titus 1:4 f.; Titus 3:12; II Timothy 4:10. He had succeeded in Corinth where Timothy had failed. Paul had left him in Crete as superintendent of the work there. Now he writes him from Nicopolis (Titus 3:12).

After a common faith (kata koinhn pistin). Here kata does mean standard, not aim, but it is a faith (pistin) common to a Gentile (a Greek) like Titus as well as to a Jew like Paul and so common to all races and classes (Judges 1:3). Koinov does not here have the notion of unclean as in Acts 10:14; Acts 11:8.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Titus 1:4:

John 4:42
Acts 10:14
1 Timothy 1:2
Titus 1:3
Titus 1:4
Jude 1:3
Revelation 7:10
Revelation 21:27

 

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