Titus 1:12-13 WEB

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Titus 1:13-14

Paul evidently felt these qualities marked the false teachers especially. Therefore he charged Titus to rebuke them sharply."Failure to confront problems within the church, whether theologically or practically based, may be indicative of a basic indifference with regard to God’s truth or the nurturing of truly Christian relationships. The fear of giving offense and a highly individualized view of personal faith may discourage church leaders from following the biblical mandate to rebuke. The... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Titus 1:13

1:13 rebuke (a-8) Elenko , as ver. 9, and ch. 2.15. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Titus 1:1-16

Greeting. Directions For Organising the Cretan Church1-16. ’Paul an Apostle, to Titus his own son in the faith. In appointing elders in the towns of Crete, see to their character, and be sure that they keep the faith. There are Judaisers in the island, and the Cretans are liars; so Church officers must be especially careful that their discourse may be sound.’1. Paul, a servant of God] St. Paul does not elsewhere use this designation in his superscriptions; so an imitator would be unlikely to... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Titus 1:12

(12) One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said.—St. Paul had spoken (Titus 1:10-11) in the severest terms of certain influential members of the Cretan Church; he had even alluded to their disastrous teaching ruining whole families, evidently implying that he had perceived among the Cretans a readiness to welcome a teaching which countenanced a laxer moral tone, the invariable result of perverted doctrine; and now he supports his own condemning words by a reference to a well-known... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Titus 1:13

(13) This witness is true.—St. Paul emphatically here endorses the very severe judgment which their own great prophet-poet had written on the national Cretan character. He (St. Paul) had lived long enough in their midst to be able to bear his grave testimony to the truth of Epimenides’ words. He had witnessed the sad havoc in Christian life which their evil national propensities had caused.Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.—Some render, wherefore confute, that... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Titus 1:12-13

Chapter 20CHRISTIANITY AND UNCHRISTIAN LITERATURE. - Titus 1:12-13THE hexameter verse which St. Paul here cites from the Cretan poet Epimenides is one of three quotations from profane literature which are made by St. Paul. Of the other two, one occurs in 1 Corinthians 15:33, "Evil communications corrupt good manners"; and the other in the Apostle’s speech on the Areopagus at Athens, as recorded in the Acts: {Acts 17:28} "For we are also his offspring." They cannot be relied upon as sufficient... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Titus 1:1-16

Analysis and Annotations I. INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS CHAPTER 1 1. The salutation (Titus 1:1-4 ) 2. Instructions concerning elders (Titus 1:5-9 ) 3. Warnings against false teachers (Titus 1:10-16 ) Titus 1:1-4 Paul calls himself in writing to Titus “a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ,” for he speaks in these introductory words of God’s elect, and their faith in Him; and the promise of eternal life, God, who cannot lie, gave before the dispensations began; and that His Word is... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Titus 1:12

1:12 {m} One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians [are] alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.(m) Epimenides, who was considered a prophet amongst them. See Laertius, and Cicero in his first book of divination. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Titus 1:13

1:13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them {n} sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;(n) Clearly and plainly, and do not go about the bush with them. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Titus 1:1-16

Paul writes both as a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, so that in the epistle considerate care is mingled with firm authority. His basis of writing is, first, the faith of God's elect; that is, the whole range of the Christian revelation, that which is the common property of those elect of God, and which attaches them both to God and to one another. The individual (Titus) cannot be separated from this. And secondly, "the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness."... read more