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Purity is an Inside Job
Commentators agree this verse is not a license for Christians to do whatever they want. Instead, it addresses false teachers obsessed with external rules, like Jewish food laws. Paul's point, echoing Jesus, is that true purity is internal. For a believer whose heart is pure through faith, morally neutral things like food are not spiritually defiling. The focus shifts from outward ceremony to the inner state of one's mind and conscience.
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Albert Barnes
On Titus 1:15
18th Century
Theologian
Unto the pure all things are pure (Titus 1:15). (Romans 14:20).
There is probably an allusion here to the d…
AT Robertson
On Titus 1:15
To them that are defiled (τοις μεμιαμμενοις). Perfect passive articular participle of μιαινω, old verb, to dye with another colour…
Charles Ellicott
On Titus 1:15
19th Century
Bishop
Unto the pure all things are pure.—The spirit of this famous saying of Saint Paul, occurring in almost the same language …
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Charles Spurgeon
On Titus 1:13–16
19th Century
Preacher
This was bad soil; but it had to be plowed, and to be sown, and with an Almighty God at the back of the gospel plower and sower, a fruitful harvest…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Titus 1:15
The test of character condemns these false teachers. This is stated in the form of a double maxim. “To the pure, all things are pure” embodies a pr…
John Calvin
On Titus 1:15
16th Century
Theologian
To the pure all things indeed are pure. He refers to one class of fictitious opinions. For the choice of foods (such as was temporarily co…
John Gill
On Titus 1:15
17th Century
Pastor
Unto the pure all things are pure
The apostle has made mention of Jewish fables, and the traditions of the elders, t…
Matthew Henry
On Titus 1:10–16
17th Century
Minister
False teachers are described. Faithful ministers must oppose them promptly, so that, their folly being exposed, they may not proceed further. They …