Titus 1:3 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Titus 1:1-4

Here is the preface to the epistle, showing, I. The writer. Paul, a Gentile name taken by the apostle of the Gentiles, Acts 13:9, 46, 47. Ministers will accommodate even smaller matters, so that they may be any furthering of acceptance in their work. When the Jews rejected the gospel, and the Gentiles received it, we read no more of this apostle by his Jewish name Saul, but by his Roman one, Paul. A servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ. Here he is described by his relation and... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Titus 1:1-4

1:1-4 This is a letter from Paul, the slave of God and the envoy of Jesus Christ, whose task it is to awaken faith in God's chosen ones, and to equip them with a fuller knowledge of that truth, which enables a man to live a really religious life, and whose whole work is founded on the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began. In his own good time God set forth his message plain for all to see in the proclamation with which I have been entrusted by the royal... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Titus 1:1-4

Further, in this passage we can see the essence of an apostle's gospel and the central things in his task. (i) The whole message of the apostle is founded on the hope of eternal life. Again and again the phrase eternal life recurs in the pages of the New Testament. The word for eternal is aionios ( Greek #166 ); and properly the only one person in the whole universe to whom that word may correctly be applied is God. The Christian offer is nothing less than the offer of a share in the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Titus 1:1-4

This passage tells us of God's purpose and of his way of working that purpose out. (i) God's purpose for man was always one of salvation. His promise of eternal life was there before the world began. It is important to note that here Paul applies the word Saviour both to God and to Jesus. We sometimes hear the gospel presented in a way that seems to draw a distinction between a gentle, loving, and gracious Jesus, and a hard, stern, and severe God. Sometimes it sounds as if Jesus had done... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Titus 1:1-4

We do not know a great deal about Titus, to whom this letter was written, but from the scattered references to him, there emerges a picture of a man who was one of Paul's most trusted and most valuable helpers. Paul calls him "my true son," so it is most likely that he himself converted him, perhaps at Iconium. Titus was the companion for an awkward and a difficult time. When Paul paid his visit to Jerusalem, to a Church which suspected him and was prepared to mistrust and dislike him, it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Titus 1:3

But hath in due times manifested his word ,.... Either Christ, his essential Word; or the word of truth, the Gospel of salvation; or rather his word of promise of eternal life in Christ Jesus: through preaching ; through the ministry of the word by the apostles; in which Christ is revealed in the glory of his person, and the fulness of his grace, and in the efficacy of his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice; and in which the Gospel, that was ordained before the world was, and is the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Titus 1:3

But hath in due times - Καιροις ιδιοις· In its own times. See 1 Timothy 2:6 ; Galatians 4:4 ; Ephesians 1:10 ; Ephesians 2:7 . God caused the Gospel to be published in that time in which it could be published with the greatest effect. It is impossible that God should prematurely hasten, or causelessly delay, the accomplishment of any of his works. Jesus was manifested precisely at the time in which that manifestation could best promote the glory of God and the salvation of man. ... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Titus 1:3

Verse 3 3.But hath manifested There was indeed some manifestation of this kind, when God in ancient times spake by his prophets; but because Christ publicly, displayed by his coming those thing which they had obscurely predicted, and the Gentiles were afterwards admitted into the fellowship of the covenant, in this sense Paul says that what had formerly been exhibited in part “hath now been manifested.” In his own times This has the same meaning as “the fullness of times.” (Galatians 4:4.) He... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Titus 1:1-4

Apostolic address and salutation. The full representation which the apostle gives of his apostolic office is designed at once to mark the authority by which he gives the instructions that follow, and to serve as an index to the contents of the whole Epistle. I. THE CLAIMS OF THE APOSTLE . "Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ." 1. He is a servant of God. Not, as he often describes himself, "a servant of Jesus Christ." The title seems to mark the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Titus 1:1-4

Redemptive truth. "Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ," etc. These words direct our attention to certain phases of redemptive truth. The substratum of the gospel is not merely truth, but redemptive truth. Truth, not merely to enlighten the intellect and to discipline the mental faculties, but to raise the human soul from spiritual ignorance to intelligence, from spiritual bondage to liberty, from selfishness to benevolence, from materialism to spirituality, from the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Titus 1:1-4

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Titus 1:1-4

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Titus 1:1-4

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Titus 1:1-4

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Titus 1:1-4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Titus 1:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Titus 1:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Titus 1:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Titus 1:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Titus 1:1-4

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