Titus 3:3 Cross References - CLV

³ For we also were once foolish, stubborn, deceived, slaves of various desires and gratifications, leading a life in malice and envy, detestable, hating one another."

² For he apportions too much to himself in his own eyes To find out his depravity and to hate it.

²² How long, O simple ones, shall you love simplicity, And mockers covet their mocking, And the stupid hate knowledge? ²³ May you turn back at my correction; Behold, let me utter what is in my spirit to you; Let me make known my words to you."

⁵ To the simple:Understand prudence; And to the stupid:Understand heart wisdom.

⁶ Forsake your simple ways and live, And progress in the way of understanding."

²⁰ Grazing on ashes, a trifling heart turns him aside. And he is not rescuing his soul, nor is he saying, "Is not a falsehood in my right hand?

³ The arrogance of your heart lures you, O tabernacler in the holes of the crag. A height is his dwelling; he is saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to earth?

²⁹ Yet he, answering, said, 'I do not want to.' Yet subsequently, regretting it, he went forth."

⁸ Now He said, "Beware that you may not be deceived, for many shall be coming in My name, saying that I am!' and 'The season is near!' You may not, then, be going after them."

³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you that everyone who is doing sin, is a slave of sin."

¹ Now Saul, still breathing out threatening and murder against the disciples of the Lord, approaching the chief priest, ² requests from him letters for Damascus to the synagogues, so that, if he should be finding any who are of the way, both men and women, he may be leading them bound to Jerusalem." ³ Now in his going he came to be nearing Damascus. Suddenly a light out of heaven flashes about him. ⁴ And falling on the earth, he hears a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? ⁵ Yet he said, "Who art Thou, Lord?Yet He said, "I am Jesus Whom you are persecuting." ⁶ Nevertheless, rise and enter the city, and it will be spoken to you what you must be doing."

¹⁹ Whence, king Agrippa, I did not become stubborn as to the heavenly apparition, " ²⁰ but first to those in Damascus, besides in Jerusalem also, besides to the entire province of Judea, and to the nations, I reported that they are to be repenting and turning back to God, engaging acts worthy of repentance."

²⁹ filled with all injustice, wickedness, evil, greed, distended with envy, murder, strife, guile, depravity, whisperers, ³⁰ vilifiers, detesters of God, outragers, proud, ostentatious, inventors of evil things, stubborn to parents, ³¹ unintelligent, perfidious, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:"

⁹ What, then? Are we privileged? Undoubtedly not, for we previously charge both Jews and Greeks to be all under sin, ¹⁰ according as it is written, that "Not one is just- not even one." ¹¹ Not one is understanding. Not one is seeking out God. ¹² All avoid Him: at the same time they were useless. Not one is doing kindness: there is not even one!" ¹³ A sepulcher opened is their throat. With their tongues they defraud."The venom of asps is under their lips." ¹⁴ Whose mouth with imprecation and bitterness is crammed. ¹⁵ Sharp are their feet to shed blood. ¹⁶ Bruises and wretchedness are in their ways, ¹⁷ And the way of peace they do not know." ¹⁸ There is no fear of God in front of their eyes. ¹⁹ Now we are aware that, whatever the law is saying, it is speaking to those under the law, that every mouth may be barred, and the entire world may become subject to the just verdict of God, ²⁰ because, by works of law, no flesh at all shall be justified in His sight, for through law is the recognition of sin."

¹⁷ Now thanks be to God that you were slaves of Sin, yet you obey from the heart the type of teaching to which you were given over."

²² Yet, now, being freed from Sin, yet enslaved to God, you have your fruit for holiness. Now the consummation is life eonian."

⁹ Or are you not aware that the unjust shall not be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom? Be not deceived. Neither paramours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards; no revilers, no extortioners shall be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom." ¹¹ And some of you were these, but you are bathed off, but you are hallowed, but you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God."

²⁰ For I fear, lest somehow, on coming, I may not be finding you such as I want, and I may be found by you such as you do not want; lest somehow there be strife, jealousy, fury, factions, vilifications, whisperings, puffing up, turbulences. "

³ For if anyone is supposing himself to be anything, being nothing, he is imposing on himself."

¹ And you, being dead to your offenses and sins, ² in which once you walked, in accord with the eon of this world, in accord with the chief of the jurisdiction of the air, the spirit now operating in the sons of stubbornness " ³ (among whom we also all behaved ourselves once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the comprehension, and were, in our nature, children of indignation, even as the rest),

²¹ And you, being once estranged and enemies in comprehension, by wicked acts, yet now He reconciles"

⁷ among whom you also once walked, when you lived in these things."

² for men will be selfish, fond of money, ostentatious, proud, calumniators, stubborn to parents, ungrateful, malign, ³ without natural affection, implacable, adversaries, uncontrollable, fierce, averse to the good,

²⁶ If anyone is seeming to be a ritualist, not bridling his tongue, but seducing his heart, the ritual of this one is vain,

¹⁴ As obedient children, not configuring to the former desires, in your ignorance,

¹ Christ, then, having suffered for our sakes in flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same thought, for he who is suffering in flesh has ceased his sins, ² 2 by no means still to spend the rest of his lifetime in the flesh in human desires, but in the will of God." ³ For sufficient is the time which has passed by to have effected the intention of the nations, having gone on in wantonness, lusts, debauches, revelries, drinking bouts, and illicit idolatries,

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent called Adversary and Satan, who is deceiving the whole inhabited earth. It was cast into the earth, and its messengers were cast with it."

¹⁴ And it is deceiving those dwelling on the earth because of the signs which were given it to do in the sight of the wild beast, saying to those dwelling on the earth to make an image to the wild beast which has the blow of the sword and lives."

² And he cries with a strong voice, saying, "It falls! It falls! Babylon the great! And it became the dwelling place of demons and the jail of every unclean spirit and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird,