Titus 2:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Teaching

1 John 2:27

Denying

This

1 John 5:19

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Bible References

Teaching

and teach them to obey all the commands I have laid on you. And I will be with you all the time, to the very end of the world."

When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

You need no one to write you upon brotherly love, for you are yourselves taught by God to love one another,

one citizen will no longer teach his fellow, one man will no longer teach his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, low and high together.

but the unction you received from him remains within you, and you really need no teaching from anyone; simply remain in him, for his unction teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie ??remain in him, as it has taught you to do.

Denying

Now, produce fruit that answers to your repentance,

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me;

in holiness and uprightness all our days within his presence.

Our baptism in his death made us share his burial, so that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live and move in the new sphere of Life.

If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.

It is far on in the night, the day is almost here; so let us drop the deeds of darkness and put on the armour of the light;

What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites

As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.

He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight,

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

so as to set you consecrated and unblemished and irreproachable in his presence ??23 that is, if you adhere to the foundations and stability of the faith, instead of moving away from the hope you have learned in the gospel, that gospel which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I Paul was made a minister.

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

God did not call us to be impure but to be consecrated;

draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

After escaping the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, if they get entangled and overpowered again, the last state is worse for them than the first.

Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

they told you beforehand, "At the end of things there will be mockers who go by their own impious passions."

This

I will no longer talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me;

I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil world ??by the will of our God and Father,

in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia,

We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One.

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in holiness and uprightness all our days within his presence.

Hence I too endeavour to have a clear conscience before God and men all the time.

That is not how you have understood the meaning of Christ

You must instruct people in what is due to sound doctrine.