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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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; in hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; but hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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: if any be blameless, the husband of one wife, For there were many converts there who had two or three wives. Whatever position they might be permitted to occupy in the church, they could not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Said, The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. They were a degraded people; and hence, those who would teach them had a most difficult task, and needed great grace. Paul exhorts Titus that only specially fit men, men whose example would have influence, and whose characters would have weight, should be allowed to be elders in such...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. 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. They profess that they know...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: There are certain things which are suitable to go with sound doctrine; they are meet and fit and appropriate thereto.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. Among the heathen, old men often gave themselves up to drunkenness and gluttony; so now, this is the teaching that is to be given to aged Christian men. They need faith, love, and patience, as well as the virtues of sobriety, gravity, and temperance. The...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; Old women also among the heathen were often addicted to the taking of much wine, so here they are cautioned against it by the Spirit of God. They are also tempted to spread slanderous reports against people:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. There were some women who supposed that, the moment they became Christians, they were to run about everywhere. “No,” says the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. That exhortation is as necessary in London as it was in Crete. Young men often know a great deal, or think they do; and they are very apt to be intoxicated with the idea of knowing so much, and being able to do so much, so that the exhortation to them is to “be sober minded.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. They are full of spirits, they are very sanguine, they are apt to be carried away with novelties; exhort them to have that which is thought to be a virtue of age, namely, sobriety. Let them be old when they are young that they may be young when they are old.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. Exhort servants-- Or, as it might and should be rendered, “bond-slaves”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In all things skewing thyself a pattern of good works: Titus was himself a young man; he must, therefore, be a pattern to young men; and as a pastor or evangelist he must be a pattern to all sorts of men.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. It is a pity when truth suffers at the hand of its own advocate; and perhaps the very worst wounds that truth has received have been in the house of its friends. You...
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,--
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...
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...