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Summary of the Letter

This saying[a] is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on such truths,[b] so that those who have placed their faith in God may be intent on engaging in good works. These things are good and beneficial for all people. But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies,[c] quarrels, and fights about the law,[d] because they are useless and empty. 10 Reject a divisive person after one or two warnings.

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 3:8 sn This saying (Grk “the saying”) refers to the preceding citation (Titus 3:4-7). See 1 Tim 1:15; 3:1; 4:9; 2 Tim 2:11 for other occurrences of this phrase.
  2. Titus 3:8 tn Grk “concerning these things.”
  3. Titus 3:9 tn Cf. 1 Tim 1:4.
  4. Titus 3:9 sn Fights about the law were characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus as well as in Crete (cf. 1 Tim 1:3-7; Titus 1:10, 14).