Titus 3:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For we also were once thoughtless and senseless, obstinate and disobedient, deluded and misled; [we too were once] slaves to all sorts of cravings and pleasures, wasting our days in malice and jealousy and envy, hateful (hated, detestable) and hating one another.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Common English Bible

³ We were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, and slaves to our desires and various pleasures too. We were spending our lives in evil behavior and jealousy. We were disgusting, and we hated other people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For, in times past, we ourselves were also unwise, unbelieving, erring, servants of various desires and pleasures, acting with malice and envy, being hateful and hating one another.

Titus 3:3 Cross References

Colossians 1:21

And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

Romans 6:17

But thanks be to God that you who were slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted

Colossians 3:7

These are the ways you also once followed, when you were living that life.

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the fruit you have leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.

Proverbs 9:6

Lay aside immaturity and live, and walk in the way of insight.”

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that when I come I may find you not as I wish and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

John 8:34

Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

Matthew 21:29

He answered, ‘I will not,’ but later he changed his mind and went.

Psalm 36:2

For they flatter themselves in their own eyes that their iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

James 1:26

If any think they are religious and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.

Galatians 6:3

For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.

Luke 21:8

And he said, “Beware that you are not led astray, for many will come in my name and say, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is near!’ Do not go after them.

Revelation 18:2

He called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul bird, a haunt of every foul and hateful beast.

Revelation 13:14

and by the signs that it is allowed to perform on behalf of the beast it deceives the inhabitants of earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet lived,

Revelation 12:9

The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”

Obadiah 1:3

Your proud heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is in the heights. You say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”

Proverbs 8:5

O simple ones, learn prudence; acquire intelligence, you who lack it.

Romans 6:6

We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, so we might no longer be enslaved to sin.

Romans 6:12

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies, so that you obey their desires.

Romans 11:30

Just as you were once disobedient to God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience,

2 Timothy 3:6

For among them are those who make their way into households and captivate immature women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires,

2 Timothy 3:13

But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived.

Titus 1:16

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their actions; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

Titus 2:12

training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,

Genesis 38:9

But since Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, he spilled his semen on the ground whenever he went in to his brother’s wife, so that he would not give offspring to his brother.

Genesis 39:16

Then she kept his garment by her until his master came home,