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Titus 3:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions  and pleasures,  living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

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Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds, as expressed in your evil actions.


But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin,  you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed  over,


and you once walked in these things when you were living  in them.


But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God,  you have your fruit, which results in sanctification   #– #and the outcome is eternal life!


As obedient children,  do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.


Leave inexperience behind, and you will live; pursue the way of understanding.


For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and you may not find me to be what you want. Perhaps there will be quarrelling,  jealousy,  angry outbursts, selfish ambitions,  slander,  gossip, arrogance, and disorder.


Jesus responded, ‘Truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.


‘He answered, “I don’t want to,” but later he changed his mind and went.


If anyone  thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue,  his religion is useless and he deceives himself.


For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing,  he deceives himself.


Then he said, ‘Watch out that you are not deceived.   For many will come in my name,   saying, “I am he,”   and, “The time is near.” Don’t follow them.


He called out in a mighty voice: It has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen! She has become a home for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, and a haunt  for every unclean and despicable beast.  ,


It deceives those who live on the earth  because of the signs that it is permitted to perform in the presence of the beast,  telling those who live on the earth to make an image  of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.


So the great dragon was thrown out #– #the ancient serpent,  who is called the devil and Satan,  the one who deceives the whole world.  He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.


He feeds on   ashes. His deceived mind has led him astray, and he cannot rescue himself, or say, ‘Isn’t there a lie in my right hand? ’


Your arrogant heart has deceived you, you who live in clefts of the rock  ,, in your home on the heights, who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground? ’


Learn to be shrewd, you who are inexperienced; develop common sense, you who are foolish.


For we know that our old self  , was crucified with him  so that the body ruled by sin  might be rendered powerless,  so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,


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


As you once disobeyed God but now have received mercy through their disobedience,


For among them are those who worm their way into households and deceive gullible women overwhelmed by sins and led astray by a variety of passions,


Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving  and being deceived.


They claim to know God,  but they deny him by their works.  They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.


instructing us to deny godlessness  and worldly lusts  and to live in a sensible, righteous,  and godly  way in the present age,


But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he released his semen on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.


She put Joseph’s garment beside her until his master came home.





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