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Titus 1:1–2
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Titus 1:1
1PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
1¶ Paul a seruant of God, and an Apostle of Iesus Christ, according to the Faith of Gods Elect, and the acknowledging of the trueth which is after godlinesse,
Titus 1:2
2In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
2‖In hope of eternall life, which God that cannot lie, promised before the world began:
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DEFINED WORDS
Titus 1:1
One who serves another; a worker, attendant, subject, bondservant, or appointed minister.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
One sent forth with authority; a messenger or ambassador.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616
The Anointed One.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
Agreeing or corresponding; in conformity with; as stated, measured, or directed by.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Trust, belief, confidence, or reliance; especially trust in God and belief in his word, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Chosen; as a noun, one who is chosen.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
acknowledging
Recognizing, admitting, or confessing as true.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
That which is true; conformity to fact, reality, faithfulness, or God's revealed word, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Reverence and devotion toward God expressed in conduct.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Titus 1:2
Confident expectation or desire for good; as a verb, to expect with trust.
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The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.
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A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Is unable to; is not able to.
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To recline, rest, remain, or be situated; also, to speak falsely or a falsehood.
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Engaged by word or writing; stipulated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To have an original or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 1
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Open the full verse study1PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
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Open the full verse study3If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
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Open the full verse study3According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
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Open the full verse study23But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
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Open the full verse study25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
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Open the full verse study11For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
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Open the full verse study16And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
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Open the full verse study11Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
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Open the full verse study13But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study2That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
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Open the full verse study4Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
5Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
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Open the full verse study4Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
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Open the full verse study1PAUL and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
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Open the full verse study49¶ But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
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Open the full verse study1PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
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Open the full verse study48And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
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Open the full verse study26But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
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Open the full verse study8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
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Open the full verse study23Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
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Open the full verse study19God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
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Open the full verse study9Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
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Open the full verse study25And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
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Open the full verse study17Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
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Open the full verse study11And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
13These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
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Open the full verse study1PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
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Open the full verse study13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
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Open the full verse study29And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
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Open the full verse study13If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
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Open the full verse study15Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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Open the full verse study21Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
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Open the full verse study20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
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Open the full verse study20Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
21Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
23Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
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Open the full verse study46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
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Open the full verse study23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Open the full verse study7That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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Open the full verse study3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
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Open the full verse study8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
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Open the full verse study28And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
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Open the full verse study15That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16¶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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Open the full verse study39¶ Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
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Open the full verse study34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
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Open the full verse study21That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Open the full verse study7In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
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Open the full verse study2Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
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Open the full verse study19Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
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Open the full verse study10Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
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Open the full verse study2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
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Open the full verse study68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
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Open the full verse study23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
26While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
27When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
28When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
29When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
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Open the full verse study8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
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Open the full verse study8The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
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Open the full verse study2(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
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Open the full verse study25Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
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Open the full verse study7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
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Open the full verse study2By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
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Open the full verse study4And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
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Open the full verse study15Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
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Open the full verse study12Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
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Open the full verse study18Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
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Open the full verse study24Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
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Open the full verse study54Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
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Open the full verse study27To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
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Open the full verse study17¶ And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
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Open the full verse study30But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
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