Topic
TITUS
(A faithful Greek companion of Paul)
Passages on this topic · 57
- Acts 15:1
Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”
- Acts 15:2
Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
- Acts 15:3
They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.
- Acts 15:4
When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things that God had done with them.
- Acts 15:5
But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”
- Acts 15:6
The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
- Acts 15:7
When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.
- Acts 15:8
God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
- Acts 15:9
He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
- Acts 15:10
Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
- Acts 15:11
But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”
- Acts 15:12
All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.
- Acts 15:13
After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.
- Acts 15:14
Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.
- Acts 15:15
This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,
- Acts 15:16
‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up,
- Acts 15:17
That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.
- Acts 15:18
All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.’
- Acts 15:19
“Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,
- Acts 15:20
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
- Acts 15:21
For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
- Acts 15:22
Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.
- Acts 15:23
They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.
- Acts 15:24
Because 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;
- Acts 15:25
it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
- Acts 15:26
men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Acts 15:27
We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.
- Acts 15:28
For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
- Acts 15:29
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
- 2 Corinthians 2:13
I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.
- 2 Corinthians 7:5
For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
- 2 Corinthians 7:6
Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
- 2 Corinthians 7:7
and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.
- 2 Corinthians 7:13
Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
- 2 Corinthians 7:14
For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
- 2 Corinthians 7:15
His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
- 2 Corinthians 8:6
So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.
- 2 Corinthians 8:16
But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
- 2 Corinthians 8:17
For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.
- 2 Corinthians 8:18
We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known through all the assemblies.
- 2 Corinthians 8:19
Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.
- 2 Corinthians 8:20
We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.
- 2 Corinthians 8:21
Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
- 2 Corinthians 8:22
We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.
- 2 Corinthians 8:23
As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 12:17
Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you?
- 2 Corinthians 12:18
I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?
- Galatians 2:1
Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
- Galatians 2:2
I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
- Galatians 2:3
But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
- 2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
- Titus 1:1
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
- Titus 1:2
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
- Titus 1:3
but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
- Titus 1:4
to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
- Titus 1:5
I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;
- Titus 3:12
When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).