Titus 1:15 BSB — MannaFest

Titus 1:15

To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

KJV

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

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Commentary

3 voices

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

LETTERS TO AMUN 48 (373)

All things made by God are beautiful and pure, for the Word of God has made nothing useless or impure.… But since the devil's darts are varied and subtle, he contrives to trouble those who are of simpler mind, and tries to hinder the ordinary exercises of the brethren, scattering secretly among them thoughts of uncleanness and defilement.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

But to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure - The apostle joins defiled and unbelieving, to intimate that nothing can be clean without a true faith: for both the understanding and conscience, those leading powers of the soul, are polluted; consequently, so is the man and all he does.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Unto the pure all things are pure - See the notes at Rom 14:14, Rom 14:20. There is probably an allusion here to the distinctions made in respect to meats and drinks among the Jews. Some articles of food were regarded as “clean,” or allowed to be eaten, and some as “unclean,” or forbidden. Paul says that those distinctions ceased under the Christian dispensation, and that to those who had a conscience not easily troubled by nice and delicate questions about ceremonial observances, all kinds of food might be regarded as lawful and proper; compare the notes at 1Ti 4:4-

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Πάντα	Panta	All things [are]	G3956 →
καθαρὰ	kathara	pure	G2513 →
τοῖς	tois	to the	G3588 →
καθαροῖς·	katharois	pure;	G2513 →
τοῖς	tois	to those	G3588 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
μεμιαμμένοις	memiammenois	defiled	G3392 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀπίστοις	apistois	unbelieving	G571 →
οὐδὲν	ouden	no [thing]	G3762 →
καθαρόν,	katharon	[is] pure,	G2513 →
ἀλλὰ	alla	Instead	G235 →
μεμίανται	memiantai	have been defiled	G3392 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
καὶ	kai	both	G2532 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
νοῦς	nous	mind	G3563 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἡ	hē	<the>	G3588 →
συνείδησις.	suneidēsis	conscience.	G4893 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 10:23
“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 6:12
  “Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.
- 1 Corinthians 8:9
  Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
- Ephesians 4:29
  Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
- Romans 14:19–20
  So then, let us pursue what leads to peace and to mutual edification.
Through
Matthew 15:18
But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man.
leads to
- Proverbs 15:28
  The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked blurts out evil.
- Matthew 12:34
  You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- Matthew 15:11
  A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”
- James 3:6–10
  The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on…