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"exhort/encourage" (in 2:6) "rebuke/reproof" (in 1:13) recalling 'the job description of the overseer' (1:9), which Titus must do himself. [15] "Let no one despise you": is an indirect command in the third person to strengthen Titus, which is similar in form and content to 1 Timothy 4:12 for Timothy. [16] Philip Towner offers a paraphrase:
It has been argued that the name "Titus" in 2 Corinthians and Galatians was an informal name used by ... 16.10; 2 Cor. 2:13, 7:6, 13–14, 12:18; and Acts 19.22) all ...
Titus has a very close affinity with 1 Timothy, sharing similar phrases and expressions and similar subject matter. [12] [13] This has led many scholars to believe that it was written by the same author who wrote 1 and 2 Timothy: their author is sometimes referred to as "the Pastor". [14] The gnostic writer Basilides rejected the epistle. [15]
Calvin, John (1556 [1-2 Tim]; 1549 [Titus]). Commentary on 1-2 Timothy and Titus. PastoralEpistles.com, an academic blog devoted to current research in the letters: Bumgardner, Charles (2016). "Paul's Letters to Timothy and Titus: A Literature Review (2009–2015)" Klinker-De Klerck, Myriam (2008). "The Pastoral Epistles: Authentic Pauline ...
— Titus 3:8, King James Version [11] "This is a faithful saying" ( Πιστὸς ὁ λόγος , pistos ho logos ): this phrase is a formula assuming 'general acceptance' and is stated 5 times in the Pastoral Epistles ( 1 Timothy 1:15 ; 3:1 ; 4:9 ; 2 Timothy 2:11 ; Titus 3:8 ).
In 1953, former American Bible Society board member Bruce M. Metzger stated that the translation was written to support Jehovah's Witness doctrines, with "several quite erroneous renderings of the Greek", [120] and cited 6 examples (John 1:1, [121] Col. 1:15-17, [122] Phil. 2:6, [123] Titus 2:13, [124] 2 Pet. 1:1, [125] and Rev. 3:14 [125]). In ...
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The faithful sayings (translated as trustworthy saying in the NIV) are sayings in the pastoral epistles of the New Testament.There are five sayings with this label, and the Greek phrase (πιστος ὁ λογος) is the same in all instances, although the KJV uses a different word in 1 Timothy 3:1.