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Chapter 3

Remind everyone to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey them, to be ready to perform any honorable task,[a] to slander no one, to avoid quarrels, to be gentle, and to be gracious to everyone.

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, and enslaved by various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy. We ourselves were hateful, and we hated one another.

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 3:1 To be ready to perform any honorable task: another possible translation is: “to be open to every good enterprise.”

Saved in Order to Do Good

Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities,(A) to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good,(B) to slander no one,(C) to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone.

At one time(D) we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

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