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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; not purloining, Not picking and stealing, which very naturally was the common habit of slaves; and who wonders at it in their wretched condition?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, They were mostly slaves in those days. A sad condition of society was that in which service meant slavery; yet even slaves were “to be obedient unto their own masters.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And to please them welt in all things; not answering again; not purloining, Not practicing petty thefts, as, alas! some servants do even now,--
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Not purloining..... Or stealing, embezzling their master's substance, taking away, and making use of what is their property, keeping back part of money or goods committed to their trust: the word is used in the case of Ananias and Sapphira. Acts 5:2, but showing all good fidelity; approving themselves to be faithful servants in everything they are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. Is not that a wonderful passage? Here is a slave able to be an ornament to the gospel of Christ! This blessed gospel is not sent to kings and princes only; when Paul preached it, the great mass of the population were in cruel bondage, treated like...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. The life of the Christian, even if he be a servant, is to be an ornament of Christianity. Christ does not look for the ornament of his religion to the riches or the talents of his followers, but to their holy lives “that they may adorn the doctrine of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation,.... By which is meant, not the free love and favour of God, which lies in his own heart; for though that is productive of salvation, and is the source and spring of it, and what brings it forth, and is far from encouraging licentiousness, but instructs in real piety, and constrains to obedience to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Christians are not to run out of the world, as monks and hermits sought to do, but to live “in this present world.” Yet, while in the world, we are to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Teaching us,.... Not all men, to whom the Gospel appears in its outward ministry; for there are many who externally receive the Gospel, and profess it, who are never influentially taught by it to deny sin, or love holiness of life; they profess in words to know it, but in works deny it; they have a form of godliness, but deny its power: but the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Looking for that blessed hope,.... Not the grace of hope; though that being a good hope through grace, and a hope of blessedness, may be called a blessed hope; yet this the saints have already implanted in their hearts in regeneration, and cannot be said to look for it: rather Christ, the object and ground of hope, who is our hope, and Christ in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. See what Christ died for, see what Christ lives for, see what we are to live for, that we should not only be a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Who gave himself for us,.... Not another, or another's, but himself; not merely his own things, but his own self; not the world, and the riches of it, not gold and silver, and such like corruptible things, as the price of redemption; not the cattle on a thousand hills for sacrifice; not men nor angels, but himself; all that belong to him, all that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These things speak and exhort,.... Sound doctrine, the doctrine of grace, the doctrines of salvation and redemption by Christ, of peace, pardon, and cleansing by his blood; these speak out clearly, plainly, publicly, boldly, and faithfully: and the things which become sound doctrine; the duties of religion suitable to every age and sex, a denying...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee. As I have already reminded you, Titus was a young man; and people are apt to despise the pastoral office when it is held by a young man. Yet they ought always to respect it, whether it be held by a young man or an old man. God knows best who is most fitted for...