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Titus 3:7-9
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7 And so,[a] since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.”[b]

Summary of the Letter

8 This saying[c] is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on such truths,[d] so that those who have placed their faith in God may be intent on engaging in good works. These things are good and beneficial for all people. 9 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies,[e] quarrels, and fights about the law,[f] because they are useless and empty.

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 3:7 tn This is the conclusion of a single, skillfully composed sentence in Greek encompassing Titus 3:4-7. Showing the goal of God’s merciful salvation, v. 7 begins literally, “in order that, being justified…we might become heirs…”
  2. Titus 3:7 tn Grk “heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”
  3. Titus 3:8 sn This saying (Grk “the saying”) refers to the preceding citation (Titus 3:4-7). See 1 Tim 1:15; 3:1; 4:9; 2 Tim 2:11 for other occurrences of this phrase.
  4. Titus 3:8 tn Grk “concerning these things.”
  5. Titus 3:9 tn Cf. 1 Tim 1:4.
  6. Titus 3:9 sn Fights about the law were characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus as well as in Crete (cf. 1 Tim 1:3-7; Titus 1:10, 14).
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