15Unto 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.
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I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. …
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
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…
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