Titus

Treated in 111 passages across the library.

Paul's letter to Titus, left in Crete to set the churches in order. It gives the qualifications of elders and instructions for older and younger believers and servants, so that sound doctrine may be adorned by godly living. Its summary of the gospel speaks of the grace of God that brings salvation and teaches us to live soberly, righteously and godly.

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  1. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 5 — The Arguments Usually Alleged in Support of Free Will Refuted cites Titus 3:4

    …by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us,” (Titus 3:4, 5). Those who argue that Paul insinuated there was some will and some running when he…

  2. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of the peculiar and distinct communion which the saints have with the Father cites Tit. iii. 4

    …— 1 John iv. 7, 8; 2 Cor. xiii. 14; John xvi. 26, 27; Rom. v. 5; John iii. 16, xiv. 23; Tit. iii. 4, opened to this purpose — What is required of believers to hold communion with the Father…

  3. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Scriptures cites Titus 2:12

    …so as no other book ever did: it bids us live ‘soberly, righteously, and godly;’ Titus 2:12; soberly, in acts of temperance; righteously, in acts of justice; godly, in acts of zeal…

  4. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Introduction cites Titus ii. 10

    …in many quarters. The immense importance of “adorning the doctrine of God our Saviour” (Titus ii. 10), and making it lovely and beautiful by our daily habits and tempers, has been far too…

  5. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    Part I. Concerning the nature of the affections and their importance in religion cites Tit. 2:14

    …is spoken of as a great thing Christ had in view, in giving himself for our redemption; Tit. 2:14, “Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto…

  6. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Few Saved! cites Titus i. 16

    …“have a form of godliness, but they have not the power” of it. (Ezek. xxxiii. 31; Titus i. 16; 2 Tim. iii. 5.) They are saints at church, and saints to talk to in public. But they are…