Titus 1:10

Paul warns that many rebellious people are spreading empty, deceptive talk, especially some from the circumcision party. It matters because false teaching threatens the very churches Titus is ordering.

Cross-references · 25

• 1 Tim 1:6from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;
• 1 Jn 4:1Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
• Gal 2:4This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
• Eph 4:14that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
• Jas 1:26If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
• Rom 16:17–18Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
• Gal 1:6–8I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;
• 1 Tim 6:3–5If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
• 2 Tim 3:13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• Acts 11:2When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,
• 2 Pet 2:1–2But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
• 1 Jn 2:18Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.
• Rev 2:6But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
• Acts 20:29For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
• 2 Cor 11:12–15But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
• Gal 4:17–21They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
• Gal 3:1Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
• Gal 5:1–4Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
• Phil 3:2–3Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
• 2 Th 2:10–12and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
• 1 Tim 1:4and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith —
• 2 Tim 4:4and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.
• Rev 2:14But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
• Acts 15:1Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”
• Acts 15:24Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;

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