Titus 1:11

Titus 1:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
• New International Version (NIV)They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.
• New King James Version (NKJV)whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

Context of Titus 1:11

9He must hold firmly to the trustworthy word [of God] as it was taught to him, so that he will be able both to give accurate instruction in sound [reliable, error-free] doctrine and to refute those who contradict [it by explaining their error]. 10For there are many rebellious men who are empty talkers [just windbags] and deceivers; especially those of the circumcision [those Jews who insist that Gentile believers must be circumcised and keep the Law in order to be saved]. They must be silenced, because they are upsetting whole families by teaching things they should not teach for the purpose of dishonest financial gain. 12One of them [Epimenides, a Cretan], a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” 13This description is true. So rebuke them sharply so that they will be sound in the faith and free from doctrinal error,

Titus 1:11 word by word

οὓς δεῖ ἐπιστομίζειν· οἵτινες ὅλους οἴκους ἀνατρέπουσιν διδάσκοντες ἃ μὴ δεῖ αἰσχροῦ κέρδους χάριν.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Whoseὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
• mouthsἐπιστομίζωepistomizō · to silenceG1993
• mustδεῖdei · be necessaryG1163
• whoὅστιςhostis hētis ho6ti · who/whichG3748
• subvertἀνατρέπωanatrepō · to overturnG396
• wholeὅλοςholos · allG3650
• housesοἶκοςoikos · house: householdG3624
• teachingδιδάσκωdidaskō · to teachG1321
• notμήmē · notG3361
• forχάρινcharin · because ofG5484
• filthyαἰσχρόςaischros · shamefulG150
• lucre’sκέρδοςkerdos · gainG2771

Commentaries on Titus 1:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11Whose mouths must be stopped - Unmask them at once; exhibit them to the people; make manifest their ignorance and hypocrisy; and let them be confounded before the people whom they are endeavoring to seduce. Subvert whole houses - Turn whole Christian families from the faith, attributing to the broad way what belongs only to the strait gate; ministering to disorderly passions, and promising salvation to their proselytes, though not saved from their sins.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Whose mouths must be stopped - The word here rendered stopped - ̓ epistomizein- occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. It means, properly, to check, or curb, as with a bridle; to restrain, or bridle in; and then, to put to silence. It is, of course, implied here that this was to be done in a proper way, and in accordance with the spirit of the gospel. The apostle gives Timothy no civil power to do it, nor does he direct him to call in the aid of the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-16Verses 10-16 False teachers are described. Faithful ministers must oppose such in good time, that their folly being made manifest, they may go no further They had a base end in what they did; serving a worldly interest under pretence of religion: for the love of money is the root of all evil. Such should be resisted, and put to shame, by sound doctrine from the Scriptures. Shameful actions, the reproach of heathens, should be far from Christians…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11entire 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).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. mouths ... stopped--literally, "muzzled," "bridled" as an unruly beast (compare Psa 32:9). who--Greek, "(seeing that they are) such men as"; or "inasmuch as they" [Ellicott]. subvert ... houses--"overthrowing" their "faith" (2Ti 2:18). "They are the devil's levers by which he subverts the houses of God" [Theophylact]. for filthy lucre--(1Ti 3:3, 8; 6:5).Read the comment

Topics related to Titus 1:11

• Bishop
• Commandments
• Covetousness
• Doctrines
• Minister, Christian
• Sacrilege
• Speaking

In the dictionaries

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Commentaries on Titus 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings