Titus 3:3
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Titus 3:3 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Titus 3:3 is a verse from the book of Titus in the New Testament. The KJV reads: "For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malic..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Titus 3:3 — KJV
“For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.”
— Titus 3:3 (KJV)
Titus 3:3 in Context — About the Book of Titus
Titus got the hard posting — planting elders across Crete, an island proverbial for liars and lazy gluttons. Paul's antidote is grace that trains: the same grace that saves teaches us to say no to ungodliness and live self-controlled, upright lives while waiting for the blessed hope.
Cross-References for Titus 3:3
“I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing. touched: Heb. kissed”
Shares key themes with Titus 3:3: also, living, one
“Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. comfort: or, exhort”
Shares key themes with Titus 3:3: ourselves, also, one
“And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.”
Shares key themes with Titus 3:3: also, one, another
“And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour. they...: Heb. ye shall serve yourselves with them”
Shares key themes with Titus 3:3: ourselves, one, another
“And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.”
Shares key themes with Titus 3:3: also, one, another
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