Bible Verses About Titus

who have dedicated their lives to upholding the name of our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.

So we have sent Y’hudah and Sila, and they will confirm in person what we are writing.

For it seemed good to the Ruach HaKodesh and to us not to lay any heavier burden on you than the following requirements:

to abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will be doing the right thing. Shalom!

I could not rest, because I failed to find my brother Titus. So I left the people there and went on to Macedonia.

For indeed when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest. On the contrary, we faced all kinds of troubles — altercations without, apprehensions within.

But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us with the arrival of Titus!

However, it was not only his arrival which encouraged us, but also how encouraged he was about you, as he told us how you long to see me, how distressed you are over my situation, how zealous you are in my defense — this news made me even happier!

This is the reason we have been encouraged. Besides our own encouragement, we had the even greater joy of seeing how happy Titus was, because all of you set his mind at rest.

For I had boasted somewhat about you to him, and now I have not been made to look foolish. On the contrary, just as everything we have said to you is true, so too our boasting in front of Titus has proved true.

And his affection for you is all the greater as he remembers how ready you were to obey and how you received him with reverence and respect.

All this has led us to urge Titus to bring this same gracious gift to completion among you, since he has already made a beginning of it.

Now I thank God for making Titus as devoted to you as we are;

for he not only responded to our urging, but, being so devoted, he is coming to you on his own initiative.

And with him we are sending the brother whose work for the Good News is praised in all the congregations;

not only that, he has also been appointed by the congregations to travel with us, so that the way we administer this charitable work will bring honor to the Lord and show our eagerness to help.

Our aim in this is to show that our conduct in dealing with these substantial sums is above reproach;

for we take pains to do what is right not only in the sight of God but also in the sight of other people.

With these two we are sending another brother of ours, one whose diligence we have tested many times in many ways, but who is now all the more diligent because of his great confidence in you.

As for Titus, he is my partner who works with me on your behalf; and the other brothers with him are emissaries of the congregations and bring honor to the Messiah.

Was it perhaps through someone I sent you

that I took advantage of you? I urged Titus to go and sent the brother with him; Titus didn’t take advantage of you, did he? Didn’t we live by the same Spirit and show you the same path?

Then after fourteen years I again went up to Yerushalayim, this time with Bar-Nabba; and I took with me Titus.

I went up in obedience to a revelation, and I explained to them the Good News as I proclaim it among the Gentiles — but privately, to the acknowledged leaders. I did this out of concern that my current or previous work might have been in vain.

But they didn’t force my Gentile companion Titus to undergo b’rit-milah.