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 practice all the commands that I have given you. And I myself will surely be with you all the days, down to the very close of an age."

So when they had crossed the sea and found Him, they asked Him, "Teacher, when did you get here?"

Now as to brotherly love, you have no need of anyone's writing you, for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another,

And each one teach his brother, saying, "Know the Lord," For all will know me, from the lowest to the highest.

The anointing of the Spirit which you received still remains in your hearts, and so you have no need that anyone should teach you. But just as that anointing of His teaches you about everything, and as it is true and no falsehood, and as it has taught you to do so, you must continue to live in union with Him.

Denying

Produce, then, fruit that is consistent with the repentance you profess,

Then Jesus said to His disciples: "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put his cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.

in holiness and uprightness In His own presence all our days.

So through baptism we have been buried with Him in death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, so we too should live an entirely new life.

for if you live by such a standard, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put a stop to the doings of your lower nature, you will live.

The night has almost passed; the day is at hand. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have a share in the kingdom of God? Stop being misled; people who are sexually immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or guilty of unnatural sexual vice

So, since we have such promises as these, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles our bodies and spirits, and in reverence to God carry on our consecration to completeness.

And those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the lower nature with its passions and evil cravings.

Through Him He picked us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in His sight in love.

to lay aside, with your former way of living, your old self which is on the way to destruction in accordance with its deceptive impulses;

by His death in His human body, so as to present you consecrated, faultless, and blameless in His presence,

So once for all put to death your lower, earthly nature with respect to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is real idolatry.

For God did not call us to a life of immorality, but to one of personal purity.

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Get your hands clean, you sinners. Get your hearts purified, you double-minded.

Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.

so that he no longer can spend the rest of his earthly life in harmony with human desires but in accordance with God's will.

It is through these that He has given us His precious and glorious promises, so that through them, after you have escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires, you may come to share in the divine nature.

For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

because they said to you, "In the last times there will be mockers who will live to satisfy their own godless passions."

This

"I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in common with me,

I have given them your message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.

Stop living in accordance with the customs of this world, but by the new ideals that mold your minds continue to transform yourselves, so as to find and follow God's will; that is, what is good, well-pleasing to Him, and perfect.

who gave Himself for our sins, to save us from the present wicked world in accordance with the will of our God and Father;

in which you once lived in accordance with the spirit of this present world, and the mighty prince of the air, who is always at work in the disobedient, among whom all of us, we Jews as well as you heathen,

for Demas has forsaken me because he loved the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;

We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

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in holiness and uprightness In His own presence all our days.

So I am always striving to have a conscience that is clear before God and men.

But this is not the way you have learned what Christ means,

You must continue telling the people what is proper for wholesome teaching: