Titus 3:3 Cross References - Goodspeed

³ For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another.

²⁹ And he answered, 'I will, sir,' but he did not go.

⁸ And he said, "Take care not to be misled. For many will come under my name, and say, 'I am he,' and 'The time is at hand.' Do not follow them.

³⁴ Jesus answered, "I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

¹ Now Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest, ² and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women there who belonged to the Way, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem. ³ But on his journey, as he was approaching Damascus, a sudden light flashed around him from heaven, ⁴ and he fell to the ground. Then he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?" ⁵ "Who are you, sir?" he asked. "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," said the voice. ⁶ "But get up and go into the city, and there you will be told what you ought to do."

¹⁹ Therefore, King Agrippa, I did not disobey that heavenly vision, ²⁰ but first to the people of Damascus and Jerusalem and then all over Judea, and even to the heathen I preached that they must repent and turn to God and live as men who have repented should.

²⁹ They revel in every kind of wrongdoing, wickedness, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and ill-nature. ³⁰ They are gossips, slanderers, abhorrent to God, insolent, overbearing, boastful, ingenious in evil, undutiful, ³¹ conscienceless, treacherous, unloving, and unpitying.

⁹ What does this mean? Are we Jews at a disadvantage? Not at all. We have already charged Jews and Greeks all alike with being under the control of sin. ¹⁰ As the Scripture says, "There is not a single man who is upright, ¹¹ No one understands, no one searches for God. ¹² All have turned away, they are one and all worthless, No one does right, not a single one! ¹³ Their throats are like open graves, They use their tongues to deceive; The venom of asps is behind their lips, ¹⁴ And their mouths are full of bitter curses. ¹⁵ Their feet are swift when it comes to shedding blood, ¹⁶ Ruin and wretchedness mark their paths, ¹⁷ They do not know the way of peace. ¹⁸ There is no reverence for God before their eyes!" ¹⁹ Now we know that everything the Law says is addressed to those under its authority, so that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world be made accountable to God. ²⁰ For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.

¹⁷ But, thank God! though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from your hearts to the standard of teaching that you received,

²² But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you get is consecration, and the final result is eternal life.

⁹ Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice ¹⁰ or thieves or greedy—drunkards, abusive people, robbers—will not have any share in God's kingdom. ¹¹ Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

²⁰ for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder,

³ For if anyone thinks he is somebody when he is really nobody, he is deceiving himself.

¹ You also were dead because of the offenses and sins ² in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient. ³ We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.

²¹ And it has brought you, who were once estranged from him, hostile in attitude and engaged in doing wrong (though now he has reconciled you

⁷ And you once practiced them as others do, when you lived that old earthly life.

² People will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, arrogant, abusive, undutiful, ungrateful, irreverent, ³ unfeeling, irreconcilable, slanderous, with no self-control, brutal, with no love for what is good,

²⁶ If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious observances are of no account.

¹⁴ Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant,

¹ Since Christ therefore has suffered in our physical nature, you must also arm yourselves with the same resolve. For he who suffers in his physical nature has done with sin, ² and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills. ³ You have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation, and detestable idolatry.

⁹ So the great dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

¹⁴ It leads the inhabitants of the earth astray by the wonders it is allowed to do on behalf of the animal, telling the inhabitants of the earth to erect a statue to the animal that bears the mark of the sword-thrust and yet lives.

² He cried out with a mighty voice, "She is fallen! Mighty Babylon is fallen! She has become the haunt of demons, and a dungeon for every foul spirit and every unclean and loathsome bird,