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 does this mean? Are we Jews at a disadvantage? Not at all. We have already charged Jews and Greeks all alike with being under the control of sin.

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice

You also were dead because of the offenses and sins

And it has brought you, who were once estranged from him, hostile in attitude and engaged in doing wrong (though now he has reconciled you

And you once practiced them as others do, when you lived that old earthly life.

Since Christ therefore has suffered in our physical nature, you must also arm yourselves with the same resolve. For he who suffers in his physical nature has done with sin,

Deceived

And he said, "Take care not to be misled. For many will come under my name, and say, 'I am he,' and 'The time is at hand.' Do not follow them.

For if anyone thinks he is somebody when he is really nobody, he is deceiving himself.

If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious observances are of no account.

So the great dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

It leads the inhabitants of the earth astray by the wonders it is allowed to do on behalf of the animal, telling the inhabitants of the earth to erect a statue to the animal that bears the mark of the sword-thrust and yet lives.

Serving

Jesus answered, "I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

But, thank God! though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from your hearts to the standard of teaching that you received,

Living

They revel in every kind of wrongdoing, wickedness, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and ill-nature.

for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder,

People will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, arrogant, abusive, undutiful, ungrateful, irreverent,

Hateful

He cried out with a mighty voice, "She is fallen! Mighty Babylon is fallen! She has become the haunt of demons, and a dungeon for every foul spirit and every unclean and loathsome bird,

General references

So it depends not on human will or exertion, but on the mercy of God.

It has not been earned, so that no one can boast of it.

And you once practiced them as others do, when you lived that old earthly life.

We love because he loved us first.