Titus 3:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

We

Deceived

Revelation 13:14

Serving

John 8:34

Romans 6:17

Living

Romans 1:29

2 Corinthians 12:20

2 Timothy 3:2

Hateful

Revelation 18:2

General references

Bible References

We

What follows, then? Are we Jews in any way superior to others? Not at all. Our indictment against both Jews and Greeks was that all alike were in subjection to sin.

Do not you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God's Kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sodomite,

You yourselves were once dead because of your offenses and sins.

And it pleased God that you, once estranged from him and hostile towards him in your thoughts, intent only on wickedness--

And to which you, like others, once devoted your lives, when you lived for them.

Since, then, Christ suffered in body, arm yourselves with the same resolve as he; for he who has suffered in body has ceased to sin,

Deceived

And Jesus said: "See that you are not led astray; for many will take my name, and come saying 'I am He,' and 'The time is close at hand.' Do not follow them.

If a man imagines himself to be somebody, when he is really nobody, he deceives himself.

When a man appears to be religious, yet does not bridle his tongue, but imposes upon his own conscience, that man's religious observances are valueless.

Then the great Dragon, the primeval Serpent, known as the 'Devil' and 'Satan,' who deceives all the world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

and in consequence of the marvels which it was allowed to perform under the eyes of the Beast, it is able to deceive all who are living on the earth. It bids those who live on the earth to make a statue in honour of the Beast, who, despite the wound from the sword, yet lived.

Serving

"In truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "every one who sins is a slave to sin.

God be thanked that, though you were once servants of Sin, yet you learned to give hearty obedience to that form of doctrine under which you were placed.

Living

They reveled in every form of wickedness, evil, greed, vice. Their lives were full of envy, murder, quarreling, treachery, malice.

For I am afraid that perhaps, when I come, I may find that you are not what I want you to be, and, on the other hand, that you may find that I am what you do not want me to be. I am afraid that I may find quarreling, jealousy, ill-feeling, rivalry, slandering, back-biting, self-assertion, and disorder.

Men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, and blasphemous; disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, impure,

Hateful

With a mighty voice he cried-- 'She has fallen! She has fallen--Babylon the Great! She has become an abode of demons, a stronghold of every wicked spirit, a stronghold of every foul and hateful bird.

General references

So, then, all depends, not on human wishes or human efforts, but on God's mercy.

It is not due to obedience to Law, lest any one should boast.

And to which you, like others, once devoted your lives, when you lived for them.

We love, because God first loved us.