Titus 1:9-11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
9 holding fast to the true message as taught so that he will be able both to exhort with sound doctrine and to refute opponents.(A) 10 [a]For there are also many rebels, idle talkers and deceivers, especially the Jewish Christians.[b] 11 It is imperative to silence them, as they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what they should not.
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- 1:10–16 This adverse criticism of the defects within the community is directed especially against certain Jewish Christians, who busy themselves with useless speculations over persons mentioned in the Old Testament, insist on the observance of Jewish ritual purity regulations, and thus upset whole families by teaching things they have no right to teach; cf. Ti 3:9; 1 Tm 1:3–10.
- 1:10 Jewish Christians: literally, “those of the circumcision.”
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