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Commentaries on Titus 3:12

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Titus 3 In this chapter the apostle exhorts Titus to press various duties incumbent on Christians, with arguments engaging to them; gives him some directions about dealing with heretics, and some instructions about private matters, and particular persons, and closes it with salutations. And first, he charges him to put his hearers in mind of their duty, to be subject to civil...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus,.... These were both of them ministers of the Gospel; there is no mention of Artemas anywhere else; some say he was one of the seventy disciples, and that he was afterwards bishop of Lystra; but these are uncertain things; [See comments on Lu 10:1]; the name is a contraction of Artemidorus. Tychicus is often spoken of; and a very great character is...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

Of duties which concern Christians more in common, and the reasons of them, ver. 1-8. What Titus in teaching should avoid, and how he should deal with a heretic, with some other directions (ver. 9-14), and salutations in the close, ver. 15. Exhortations to Several Duties; Characteristics of an Unrenewed State; The Import and Origin of Salvation; Regeneration; Justification. (a. d. 66.) 1 Put them...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter. Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them. Paul had already told Titus to bid the saints in Crete to abound in good works; now he is commanded to take care of certain traveling Christians, and to speed them on...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter. Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing he wanting unto them. And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not...