Titus 3:11
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knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful; he is self-condemned.
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is . . . subverted--"is become perverse." condemned of himself--He cannot say, no one told him better: continuing the same after frequent admonition, he is self-condemned. "He sinneth" wilfully against knowledge.
Open source ↗The apostle here directs Titus about the faithful discharge of his own office generally (Tit 2:1), and particularly as to several sorts of persons (Tit 2:2-10) and gives the grounds of these and of other following directions (Tit 2:11-14), with a summary direction in the close (Tit 2:15).
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His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
It has come to our attention that some went out from us without our authorization and unsettled you, troubling your minds by what they said.
Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.
But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.
Remind the believers of these things, charging them before God to avoid quarreling over words, which succeeds only in leading the listeners to ruin.
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.