Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Titus 1:10, and Living Bread opens it right there.
The passage in its setting
Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Titus 1. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.
8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- 1 Timothy 1:6
From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
- 1 John 4:1
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
- Galatians 2:4
And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
- Ephesians 4:14
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
- Galatians 1:6
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
- Romans 16:17
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
- 2 Timothy 3:13
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
- Acts 11:2
And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,
- 1 Timothy 6:3
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
- James 1:26
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
- Galatians 4:17
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
- 2 Timothy 4:4
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
- Revelation 2:6
But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
More to meet God in Titus
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.
