Titus 1:11

Translations

Modern

…who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.

Traditional

Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

Literal

…whom it is necessary to silence, who overturn whole households, teaching things that it is necessary not to teach, for the sake of shameful gain.

Latin

…quos oportet redargui: qui universas domos subvertunt, docentes quæ non oportet, turpis lucri gratia.

Original

Greek

English

…who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.

Notes

Titus 1:11

entire households: This also happened in Ephesus (compare 1 Timothy 4:3; 2 Timothy 2:18; 3:6).
for the sake of dishonorable gain: Elders must not have this characteristic (Titus 1:7; see also 1 Timothy 6:5–10; 2 Corinthians 2:17; 1 Peter 5:2).

Titus 1:10–16

In a native population of troublemakers, Titus would need to lead firmly to rid these Christian communities of corruption and make them healthy in the faith (1:13–16).

Titus 1:5–16

Strong, faithful leadership was needed in the churches of Crete to address the danger of false teachers (1:10–16). This part of Titus’s task coincides with the larger concern of the letter: to shape a community that bears witness to Christ by embodying God’s grace in its conduct. Compare 1 Timothy 3:1–7.

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