Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
A lover of good (filagaqon). Late double compound (filos, agaqov). See Wisdom 7:22. Here only in N.T. Just (dikaion), holy (osion) not in 1Ti. 3.
Temperate (egkrath). Old and common adjective (en, kratov, strength), having power over, controlling, here only in N.T. Picture of self-control.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Titus 1:8:
Luke 1:75
Acts 14:23
1 Timothy 3:2
1 Timothy 5:17
2 Timothy 3:3
1 Peter 4:9
2 Peter 1:6
3 John 1:5
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