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For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Titus 2:11 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
  • BSB For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
  • NKJV For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
  • NASB For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people,
  • NLT For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people.

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Quick answer

The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation available to all kinds of people. It matters because grace, revealed in Christ, is the foundation and motive for all godly living.

Overview

Paul now grounds all the preceding exhortations in the gospel: God's saving grace has 'appeared' in the coming of Jesus Christ. This grace offers salvation to people of every kind, not just one group. The transformed lives commanded throughout the chapter flow from this appearing of grace.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 40

  • Eph 2:8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
  • 1 Tim 2:4Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
  • Isa 45:22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
  • Heb 2:9But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
  • Eph 2:5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
  • 2 Th 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
  • John 1:16–17And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
  • John 1:14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
  • Rom 5:15But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
  • Eph 1:6–7To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
  • Isa 52:10The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
  • Acts 20:24But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
  • Ps 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
  • Acts 11:23Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
  • Isa 60:1–3Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
  • Luke 3:6And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
  • Ps 117:1–2O Praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
  • Rom 5:2By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
  • Rom 11:5–6Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
  • 1 Tim 1:14And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
  • Gal 2:21I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
  • Titus 3:4–5But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
  • Ps 96:1–3O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
  • Ps 96:10Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
  • Zech 12:10And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
  • Rom 4:4–5Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
  • Acts 13:43Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
  • 2 Cor 6:1We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
  • Luke 24:47And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
  • Col 1:6Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
  • Mark 16:15And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
  • 2 Tim 4:17Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
  • Zech 4:7Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
  • Ps 98:1–3O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
  • Matt 28:19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
  • John 1:9That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
  • Isa 49:6And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
  • Rom 5:20–21Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
  • Rom 15:9–19And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
  • Acts 13:47For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

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Christ at the center

We await 'the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us' and purify a people of his own.

How Titus 2:11 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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