Titus 1:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good deed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ They profess to know God [to recognize, perceive, and be acquainted with Him], but deny and disown and renounce Him by what they do; they are detestable and loathsome, unbelieving and disobedient and disloyal and rebellious, and [they are] unfit and worthless for good work (deed or enterprise) of any kind.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ They claim to know God, but they deny God by the things that they do. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified to do anything good.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ They claim that they know God. But, by their own works, they deny him, since they are abominable, and unbelieving, and reprobate, toward every good work.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him; being abominable, and incredulous, and to every good work reprobate.

Titus 1:16 Cross References

Job 15:16

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

Proverbs 30:12

There are those who are pure in their own eyes but are not cleansed of their filth.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote;

Isaiah 48:1

Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came forth from the loins of Judah; who swear by the name of the Lord, and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right.

Isaiah 58:2

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing, and denying the Lord, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Jeremiah 12:2

Thou plantest them, and they take root; they grow and bring forth fruit; thou art near in their mouth and far from their heart.

Jeremiah 5:2

Though they say, “As the Lord lives,” yet they swear falsely.

Jeremiah 6:30

Refuse silver they are called, for the Lord has rejected them.”

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with their lips they show much love, but their heart is set on their gain.

Numbers 24:16

the oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, but having his eyes uncovered:

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

1 Timothy 1:9

understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

1 Timothy 5:8

If any one does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

2 Timothy 3:17

that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Titus 3:1

Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for any honest work,

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another;

1 John 2:4

He who says “I know him” but disobeys his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

Jude 1:4

For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unclean shall enter it, nor any one who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

1 Samuel 15:24

And Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.