Titus 2:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² It has trained us to reject and renounce all ungodliness (irreligion) and worldly (passionate) desires, to live discreet (temperate, self-controlled), upright, devout (spiritually whole) lives in this present world,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;

Common English Bible

¹² It educates us so that we can live sensible, ethical, and godly lives right now by rejecting ungodly lives and the desires of this world.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² instructing us to reject impiety and worldly desires, so that we may live soberly and justly and piously in this age,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, and justly, and godly in this world,

Titus 2:12 Cross References

Psalm 105:45

That they might keep his statutes, And observe his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

Psalm 4:3

But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: The LORD will hear when I call unto him.

Ezekiel 36:27

And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgements, and do them.

Matthew 12:32

And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come.

Matthew 16:24

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Matthew 28:20

teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.

Luke 1:6

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

Luke 1:75

In holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

John 14:30

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me;

John 6:25

And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?

Acts 24:16

Herein do I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men alway.

Acts 24:25

And as he reasoned of righteousness, and temperance, and the judgement to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, Go thy way for this time; and when I have a convenient season, I will call thee unto me.

Romans 12:2

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Romans 6:12

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

Romans 6:19

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification.

Romans 8:13

for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father:

Galatians 5:24

And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

Ephesians 1:4

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

Ephesians 2:2

wherein aforetime ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;

Colossians 1:22

in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

1 Timothy 6:17

Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

1 Timothy 6:9

But they that desire to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.

2 Timothy 3:12

Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Titus 3:3

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

Hebrews 8:11

And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

2 Peter 2:9

the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgement;

2 Peter 3:11

Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness,

1 John 2:27

And as for you, the anointing which ye received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you; but as his anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in him.

1 John 2:6

he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.

Jude 1:18

how that they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.

Revelation 14:12

Here is the patience of the saints, they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.