Titus 3:4 - Exposition

When for after that, A.V.; the kindness of God our Savior, and his love toward man for the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man, A.V. Kindness ( χρηστότης ) , used by St. Paul only in the New Testament, and by him frequently in the sense of "kindness," whether of God (as Romans 2:4 ; Romans 11:22 ; Ephesians 2:7 ) or of man (as 2 Corinthians 6:6 ; Galatians 5:22 ; Colossians 3:12 ). In Romans 3:12 , where it has the wider sense of "good" or "right," it is the phrase of the LXX ., who use χρηστότης for the Hebrew בוֹט . In like manner, χρηστός is frequently used in the sense of "kind" ( Luke 6:35 ; Romans 2:4 ; Colossians 3:12 ; 1 Peter 2:3 ). This is exactly analogous to the use of κακός and κακία , in the limited sense of "malicious," "malice" (see preceding note to Romans 3:3 ). Love toward man ( φιλανθρωπία ); only here and Acts 28:2 in the New Testament. It occurs repeatedly in the Books of the Maccabees, and is common in good classical Greek. God our Savior (see 1 Timothy 1:1 ; 1 Timothy 2:3 ; Titus 2:10 , etc.). Appeared ( Titus 2:11 ).