Titus 1:14

Titus 1:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
• New International Version (NIV)and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth.
• English Standard Version (ESV)not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.
• New King James Version (NKJV)not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from the truth.

Context of Titus 1:14

12Many years ago, there was a certain man who lived on Crete. The people there called him their prophet. Even he said, ‘People who live on Crete are always telling lies and doing wicked things. They are lazy and they eat too much food.’ 13What that man said is true. So you must warn the people there. Help them to believe the true message about Jesus more and more. They must not listen to Jewish stories that are not true, or to human rules. Those things are the ideas of people who refuse to obey God's true message. 15If someone is clean and good inside, everything is clean and good for them to enjoy. But if someone is not a believer and has an unclean mind, nothing is clean or good for that person. Their minds no longer think properly. They no longer feel guilty when they do something wrong. 16People like that say that they know God. But they do disgusting things. This shows that they do not know him. They are completely bad. They refuse to obey God. They are not able to do anything good.

Titus 1:14 word by word

μὴ προσέχοντες Ἰουδαϊκοῖς μύθοις καὶ ἐντολαῖς ἀνθρώπων ἀποστρεφομένων τὴν ἀλήθειαν.¶Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Notμήmē · notG3361
• giving heed toπροσέχωprosechō · to watch outG4337
• JewishἸουδαϊκόςIoudaikos · JewishG2451
• fablesμῦθοςmuthos · mythG3454
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• commandmentsἐντολήentolē · commandmentG1785
• of menἄνθρωποςanthrōpos · a humanG444
• that turn fromἀποστρέφωapostrephō · to turn awayG654
• the truthὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• the truthἀλήθειαalētheia · truthG225

Commentaries on Titus 1:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14Not giving heed to Jewish fables - See on 1 Timothy 1:4; (note); 1 Timothy 4:7; (note). Commandments of men - The injunctions of the scribes and Pharisees, which they added to the law of God. That turn from the truth - For such persons made the word of God of none effect by their traditions. Sometimes the verb signifies to be averse from, slight, or despise. So, here, the persons in question despised the truth, and taught others to do the same.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14Not giving heed to Jewish fables … - See the notes at 1 Timothy 1:4. And commandments of men that turn from the truth - Notes, Matthew 15:3-5.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. 14Jewish myths: See 3:9; 1 Timothy 1:4; 4:7; 2 Timothy 4:4. have rejected the truth: This was apostasy not mere unbelief. Apostasy is when someone abandons or rejects their beliefs. See 1 Timothy 1:6–7.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. Jewish fables--(See on 1Ti 1:4; 1Ti 4:7; 2Ti 4:4). These formed the transition stage to subsequent Gnosticism; as yet the error was but profitless, and not tending to godliness, rather than openly opposed to the faith. commandments of men--as to ascetic abstinence (Tit 1:15; Mr 7:7-9; Col 2:16, 20-23; 1Ti 4:3). that turn from the truth--whose characteristic is that they turn away from the truth (2Ti 4:4).Read the comment

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• Commandments
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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