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For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people.
Titus 2:11 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
  • KJV For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared 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,

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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 you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
  • 1 Tim 2:4who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
  • Isa 45:22“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
  • Heb 2:9But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
  • Eph 2:5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
  • 2 Th 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
  • John 1:16–17From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
  • John 1:14The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
  • Rom 5:15But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
  • Eph 1:6–7to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
  • Isa 52:10Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • Acts 20:24But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
  • Ps 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
  • Acts 11:23who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
  • Isa 60:1–3“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
  • Luke 3:6All flesh will see God’s salvation.’”
  • Ps 117:1–2Praise Yahweh, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples!
  • Rom 5:2through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We 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 1:14The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
  • Gal 2:21I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
  • Titus 3:4–5But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
  • Ps 96:1–3Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
  • Ps 96:10Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.” The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.
  • Zech 12:10I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
  • Rom 4:4–5Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
  • Acts 13:43Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.
  • 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
  • Luke 24:47and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
  • Col 1:6which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
  • Mark 16:15He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
  • 2 Tim 4:17But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
  • Zech 4:7Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’”
  • Ps 98:1–3A Psalm. Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.
  • Matt 28:19Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
  • John 1:9The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
  • Isa 49:6Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
  • Rom 5:20–21The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
  • Rom 15:9–19and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”
  • Acts 13:47For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts 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.

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