Titus 2:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

Titus 2:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Timothy 4:2
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
1 Timothy 4:12-13
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. …
Titus 1:13
This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
1 Timothy 5:20
Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
Matthew 7:29
For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 15)

The apostle closes the chapter (as he began it) with a summary direction to Titus upon the whole, in which we have the matter and manner of ministers’ teaching, and a special instruction to Titus in reference to himself. I. The matter of ministers’ teaching: These thing, namely, those before mentioned: not Jewish fables and traditions, but the truths and duties of the gospel, of avoiding sin, and…

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

(vv. 15)

15. with all authority--Translate, “authoritativeness” (compare “sharply,” Tit 1:13). Let no man despise thee--Speak with such vigor as to command respect (1Ti 4:12). Warn them with such authority that no one may think himself above (so the Greek literally) the need of admonition [Tittmann, Greek Synonyms of the New Testament].