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The Ultimate Litmus Test
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse establishes a crucial test for faith: a person's actions reveal their true beliefs. The false teachers professed to know God, but their conduct denied Him. Scholars explain that their lifestyle gave the lie to their verbal profession, making them, as one commentator puts it, 'practical atheists.' This serves as a timeless principle that genuine faith is validated by a transformed life, not just by words.
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Titus
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Albert Barnes
On Titus 1:16
18th Century
Theologian
They profess that they know God. This refers particularly to the Jewish teachers mentioned in Titus 1:14. All these individuals were profe…
AT Robertson
On Titus 1:16
They profess (ομολογουσιν). Present active indicative of ομολογεω, common verb (ομου, λεγω) as in Ro 10:10f. Ειδενα (know) is seco…
Charles Ellicott
On Titus 1:16
19th Century
Bishop
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him.—These bitter enemies of the truth, Titus must remember, will…
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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 1:16
The false teachers also stand condemned by the test of conduct. They publicly confess that they are fully informed about God and stand in intimate …
John Calvin
On Titus 1:16
16th Century
Theologian
They profess that they know God. He treats those persons as they deserve; for hypocrites, who give their whole attention to minute observa…
John Gill
On Titus 1:16
17th Century
Pastor
They profess that they know God
That there is a God; that there is but one, only, true, and living God, the God of I…
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 …