Titus 1:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

Titus 1:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Titus 2:2
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
1 Timothy 5:20
Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
Titus 2:15
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
2 Timothy 4:2
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
2 Corinthians 13:10
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-16)

The apostle here gives Titus directions about ordination, showing whom he should ordain, and whom not. I. Of those whom he should ordain. He points out their qualifications and virtues; such as respect their life and manners, and such as relate to their doctrine: the former in the Titus 1:6, 7, 8, and the latter in the Titus 1:9. 1. Their qualifications respecting their life and manners are, (1.)…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. This witness--“This testimony (though coming from a Cretan) is true.” sharply--Gentleness would not reclaim so perverse offenders. that they--that those seduced by the false teachers may be brought back to soundness in the faith. Their malady is strifes about words and questions (Tit 3:9; 1Ti 6:4).