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By Vexen Crabtree 2012
Included as holy:
Protestant Bibles
Title: Titus
Section: New Testament
Catholic Bible
Title: Titus
Section: New Testament
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Title: Titus
Section: New Testament
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Jewish Tanakh
The three pastoral epistles (letters) of St Paul are 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus. Although they have been included in the New Testament canon since the 4th century, their authenticity has been heavily disputed. Scholars and Christian theologians are sure that all three are forgeries1,2,3,4,5, probably all forged by the same person2,3, a long time after St Paul's death6. The pastorals do not appear in the early collections of epistles of St Paul7 nor are they even mentioned until Irenaeus (~190CE)3 and Eusebius, the great Christian historian of the 4th century, still does not include 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus in his Bible3.
Titus had allegedly helped Paul establish the Christian Church in Crete, and Paul is telling Titus what types of person to promote within the Church. Those with wrong beliefs must be resisted! False teachings are dangerous.
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13 of the books of the Christian New Testament are the epistles (letters) of St. Paul, which form the oldest text in the New Testament8. Seven were probably written by Paul himself and six others have been written in his name by (anonymous) followers, some up to 80 years after his death. By the time the official Bible canon was produced, no-one knew that only some were genuine. The historical Paul probably did write 1 Thessalonians, Galatians, 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians, Philippians, Philemon and Romans. Letters forged in the name of Paul are 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Ephesians, Colossians and 2 Thessalonians.1,2,9,4. Paul was born in Tarsus as "Saul" and adopted the name of Paul after converting to what is now Christianity. He was an early leader of the growing Christian churches around the Roman Empire, and the writings of St. Paul are the earliest existing Christian writings known to historians. Despite this, Paul never met Jesus and appears to rely mostly on Greek myths and legends, many of which he copied, placing Jesus at the center of them instead of their original heroes.
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The pastoral epistles 'were the first books of Paul that, in the history of modern scholarship, were extensively argued to be forgeries'11 starting with Friedrich Schleiermacher in 1807. The books share peculiar and specific sentences and phrases that are not found in any of Paul's other letters - 'in 1921 British scholar A. N. Harrison [produced] numerous statistics about the word usage in these writings [and] over a third of them... do not occur in any of the Pauline letters of the New Testament. [... The] author is using a vocabulary that was becoming more common after the days of Paul, and that he therefore lived after Paul'12. Further analysis shows that words such as 'faith' and 'righteousness' are used different in the Pastoral Epistles to other Pauline books (i.e. in 'Titus)13. Other concepts of the Pastoral Epistles do not mesh well with Paul's actual teachings, especially where he insists that the leaders of the church are married, whereas in '1 Paul dissuades people from marrying (because the end is near)14. The social structure and organisation of the Church is much more developed in the Pastoral Letters than with Paul's writings15; the letter suits the 2nd century far more than the 1st. So, for all these reasons, the Pastoral Epistles of 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus, are known to be forgeries in the name of Paul.
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Note that the "genealogies" and "mythologies" that the author of Titus attacks were only developed long after the time of Paul, when Christianity was full of variant sects with varied beliefs.
“Paul writes to have his representative correct those who are delivering false teachings, which again involve 'genealogies' and 'mythologies.' He also gives instructions to various groups within the church: older men, older women, younger women, younger men, and slaves.”
| KJV | YLT | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; | Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that `is' according to piety, | Titus 1:2 comments: Can God Lie? Is God Always Truthful in the Christian Bible? Titus 1:2 is discussed on Can God Lie? Is God Always Truthful in the Christian Bible?: 1. Verses from the Bible in More Detail |
| 2 | In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; | upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages, | |
| 3 | But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour; | (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour, | |
| 4 | To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. | to Titus -- true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour! | |
| 5 | For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: | For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee; | |
| 6 | If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. | if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate -- | |
| 7 | For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; | for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre; | |
| 8 | But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; | but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled, | |
| 9 | Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. | holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict; | |
| 10 | For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: | for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision -- | |
| 11 | Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. | whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake. | |
| 12 | One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. | A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said -- `Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!' | |
| 13 | This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; | this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, | |
| 14 | Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. | not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth; | |
| 15 | Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. | all things, indeed, `are' pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast `is' nothing pure, but of them defiled `are' even the mind and the conscience; | |
| 16 | They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. | God they profess to know, and in the works they deny `Him', being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved. |
| KJV | YLT | Notes | |
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| 1 | Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, | Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready, | Titus 3:2 comments: 2 John - The 2nd Epistle of John Titus 3:2 is referenced on Religious Extremism: 5. Extremism in Christianity Titus 3:2 is discussed on Christianity: The Bible Teachings on Those Who Believe Wrongly: 2. The Dangers of Believing in God Wrongly Titus 3:2 is referenced on Christian Moral Theory and Morality in Action: Biblical Morals and Social Disaster: 6.6. Christian Extremism, Intolerance and Resurgent Fundamentalism Titus 3:2 comments: Instruct with Great Patience: How Christians Should Preach and Debate, According to the Bible Titus 3:4-5 is discussed on Monotheism and Free Will: God, Determinism and Fate: 4.1. Christianity Titus 3:4-5: See The Illusion of Choice: Free Will and Determinism: 7.3. Free Will in the Christian Bible Titus 3:4-5 is referenced on Is the Christian God Evil? Evidence from Scripture and Nature: 5. No Free Will in the New Testament Titus 3:4-5: Biblical Christianity Denies Free Will Titus 3:4-5 is discussed on Biblical Christianity Denies Free Will: 1.4. Misc. Biblical Text |
| 2 | To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. | of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men, | |
| 3 | For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. | for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another; | |
| 4 | But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, | and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear | |
| 5 | Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; | (not by works that `are' in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit, | |
| 6 | Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; | which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour, | |
| 7 | That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. | that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during. | |
| 8 | This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. | Stedfast `is' the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works -- who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men, | |
| 9 | But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. | and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain. | |
| 10 | A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; | A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting, | |
| 11 | Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. | having known that he hath been subverted who `is' such, and doth sin, being self-condemned. | |
| 12 | When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter. | When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis, for there to winter I have determined. | |
| 13 | Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them. | Zenas the lawyer and Apollos bring diligently on their way, that nothing to them may be lacking, | |
| 14 | And let our's also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. | and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful. | |
| 15 | All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. | Salute thee do all those with me; salute those loving us in faith; the grace `is' with you all! |