Tag: good works
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Fruitful Hands — Titus 3:14
Titus 3:14 And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. Paul ends this section with something very practical. Believers are to maintain good works. The phrase carries the idea of learning to practice useful trades—to have honest work that meets real needs. In other words, the…
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Truth Worth Repeating — Titus 3:8
Titus 3:8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. Paul now says something that might surprise people who think spiritual teaching is supposed to be new…
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Living Well Under Authority — Titus 3:1
Titus 3:1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work. As Paul moves into the next chapter, he reminds Titus to keep bringing certain truths back to the minds of the believers. “Put them in mind.” People often assume the greatest need…
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Adorned With What Lasts — 1 Timothy 2:9–10
1 Timothy 2:9–10 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. Paul is not attacking beauty. He is redirecting it. The culture of his day, like ours, knew how…