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Titus 2:15
Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul instructs Titus to deliver these final doctrinal and behavioral directives to the Cretan congregations after concluding the section on sound teaching and household codes.
The words — παρακαλεῖ (parakalei) = do exhort and ἔλεγχε (elegche) = do rebuke operate alongside μετὰ πάσης (meta pasēs) = with all. The syntax binds the act of speaking to both pastoral encouragement and corrective discipline.
The thread — The charge to exhort and rebuke matches the pattern in 2 Timothy 4:2 for patient instruction. The warning against being despised parallels 1 Timothy 4:12, while the command to rebuke sternly appears in Titus 1:13.
Why it lands — The text commands the messenger to speak with full authority and requires the audience to receive the instruction without contempt. A reader must apply the directives immediately, treating the message as binding rather than evaluating the messenger.
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The Greek words
King James Version
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
Cross-references
- 2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.
- 1 Timothy 4:12 Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
- Titus 1:13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith
- 1 Timothy 5:20 But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.
- Matthew 7:29 because He taught as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
- Mark 1:22 The people were astonished at His teaching, because He taught as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.
- Mark 1:27 All the people were amazed and began to ask one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him!”
- Luke 4:36 All the people were overcome with amazement and asked one another, “What is this message? With authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”