Titus 2:14

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He gave himself for us. He died to free us from all evil. He died to make us pure people that belong only to him—people that are always wanting to do good things.

Cross References

Genesis 48:16

He was the Angel who saved me from all my troubles. And I pray that he will bless these boys. Now these boys will have my name and the name of our ancestors, Abraham and Isaac. I pray that they will grow to become great families and nations on earth.”

Psalm 135:4

The Lord chose Jacob. {\cf2\super [626]} \par Israel belongs to God.\par

Exodus 15:16

Those people will be filled with fear when they see your strength. They will be as still as a rock until the Lord’s people pass by, until the people you have made pass by.

Ezekiel 36:25

Then I will sprinkle pure water on you and make you pure. I will wash away all your filth. I will wash away the filth from those nasty idols and make you pure.”

Ezekiel 37:23

And they won’t continue to make themselves filthy with their idols {\cf2\super [296]} and horrible statues or with any of their other crimes. But I will save them from all the places where they have sinned. And I will wash them and make them pure. And they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Leviticus 25:41

Then he can leave you. He can take his children and go back to his family. He can go back to the property of his ancestors. [435]

Malachi 3:3

He will make the Levites {\cf2\super [17]} clean. {\cf2\super [18]} He will make them pure, like silver is made pure—with fire! He will make them pure like gold and silver. Then they will bring gifts to the Lord—and they will do those things the right way.

Numbers 25:13

This is the agreement: He and all of his family that live after him will always be priests. Why? Because he had strong feelings for his God. And he did the things that made the people of Israel pure. [315] ”

Matthew 1:21

She will give birth to a son. You will name the son Jesus. {\cf2\super [13]} Give him that name because he will save his people from their sins.”

Matthew 20:28

It is the same with the Son of Man. {\cf2\super [276]} The Son of Man did not come for other people to serve him. The Son of Man came to serve other people. The Son of Man came to give his life to save many people.”

Matthew 3:12

He will come ready to clean the grain. {\cf2\super [43]} He will separate the good grain from the straw. He will put the good part of the grain into his barn. And he will burn the part that is not good. He will burn it with a fire that cannot be stopped.”

John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If a person eats this bread, then that person will live forever. This bread is my body. I will give my body so that the people in the world can have life.”

Acts 15:14

Simon (Peter) has told us how God showed his love for the non-Jewish people. For the first time, God accepted the non-Jewish people and made them his people.

Acts 15:9

To God, those people are not different from us. When they believed, God made their hearts pure.

Acts 20:28

Be careful for yourselves and for all the people that God has given you. The Holy Spirit {\cf2\super [406]} gave you the work of caring for this flock. {\cf2\super [407]} You must be like shepherds to the church (people) of God. {\cf2\super [408]} This is the church that God bought with his own blood. {\cf2\super [409]}

Acts 9:36

In the city of Joppa there was a follower \{of Jesus\} named Tabitha. (Her Greek name, Dorcas, means “a deer.”) She always did good things for people. She always gave money to people that needed it.

Galatians 1:4

Jesus gave himself for our sins. Jesus did this to free us from this evil world we live in. This is what God the Father wanted.

Galatians 2:20

So the life that I live now is not really me—it is Christ living in me. I still live in my body, but I live by faith in the Son of God (Jesus). Jesus is the One who loved me. He gave himself to save me.

Galatians 3:13

The law put a curse on us. But Christ took away that curse. He changed places with us. Christ put himself under that curse. The Scriptures say, “When a person’s body is put (hung) on a tree, {\cf2\super [32]} that person is under a curse.” {\cf2\super [33]}

Ephesians 1:11

In Christ we were chosen \{to be God’s people\}. God had already planned for us to be his people, because that is what God wanted. And God is the One who makes everything agree with what he decides and wants.

Ephesians 2:10

God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us new people so that we would do good things. God had already planned those good things for us. God had planned for us to live our lives doing those good things.

Ephesians 5:2

Live a life of love. Love other people the same as Christ loved us. Christ gave himself for us—he was a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice {\cf2\super [37]} to God.

Deuteronomy 14:2

Why? Because you are different from other people. You are the Lord’s special people. From all the people in the world, the Lord your God chose you to be his own special people.

Deuteronomy 26:18

And today the Lord has accepted you to be his own people. He has promised you this. The Lord also said that you must obey all his commands.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the Lord brought you out of Egypt and made you his own special people. It was as if the Lord reached into a hot furnace for melting iron and pulled you out of that fire. And now you are his people!

Deuteronomy 7:6

Why? Because you are the Lord’s own people. From all the people on earth, the Lord your God chose you to be his special people—people that belong only to him.

1 Timothy 1:15

What I say is true, and you should fully accept it: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the worst of those sinners.

1 Timothy 2:10

But they should make themselves beautiful by doing good things. Women who say they worship God should make themselves beautiful in that way.

1 Timothy 2:6

Jesus gave himself to pay for \{the sins of\} all people. Jesus is proof \{that God wants all people to be saved\}. And he came at the right time.

1 Timothy 6:18

Tell the rich people to do good. Tell them to be rich in doing good things. And tell them to be happy to give and ready to share.

Titus 2:7

You should do good things to be an example in every way for the young men. When you teach, be honest and serious.

Titus 3:8

There is something that you should do. And because of the authority I have in Christ, I feel free to command you to do it.

Hebrews 1:3

The Son shows the glory of God. He is a perfect copy of God’s nature. The Son holds everything together with his powerful command. The Son made people clean from their sins. Then he sat down at the right side {\cf2\super [2]} of the Great One (God) in heaven.

Hebrews 10:24

We should think about each other and see how we can help each other to show love and do good things.

Hebrews 9:14

So surely the blood of Christ can do much, much more. Christ offered himself through the eternal Spirit {\cf2\super [106]} as a perfect sacrifice {\cf2\super [107]} to God. His blood will make us fully clean from the evil things we have done. His blood will make us pure even in our hearts. We are made pure so that we can worship (serve) the living God.

James 4:8

Come near to God and God will come near to you. You are sinners. So clean sin out of your lives. {\cf2\super [23]} You are trying to follow God and the world at the same time. Make your thinking pure.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that \{in the past\} you were living in a worthless way. You got that way of living from the people who lived before you. But you were saved from that way of living. You were bought, but not with things that ruin like gold or silver.

1 Peter 1:22

Now you have made yourselves pure by obeying the truth. Now you can have true love for your brothers and sisters. So love each other deeply—with all your heart.

1 Peter 2:12

People who don’t believe are living all around you. Those people may say that you are doing wrong. So live good lives. Then they will see the good things you do, and they will give glory to God on that day when he comes.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are chosen people. You are the King’s priests. You are a holy {\cf2\super [20]} nation of people. You are people who belong to God. God chose you to tell about the wonderful things he has done. He called (brought) you out of darkness (sin) into his wonderful light.

1 Peter 3:18

Christ himself died for you. And that one death paid for your sins. He was not guilty, but he died for people who are guilty. He did this to bring you all to God. His body was killed, but he was made alive in the spirit.

1 John 1:7

God is in the light (goodness). We should live in the light, too. If we live in the light, then we share fellowship with each other. And when we live in the light, the blood (death) of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. (Jesus is God’s Son.)

1 John 1:9

But if we confess (admit) our sins, then God will forgive our sins. We can trust God to do this. God does what is right. God will make us clean from all the wrong things we have done.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, now we are children of God. We have not yet been shown what we will be in the future. But we know that when Christ comes again, we will be like him. We will see him like he really is.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ. Jesus is the faithful witness. He was first among those to be raised from death. Jesus is the ruler of the kings of the earth.

Revelation 5:9

And they all sang a new song \{to the Lamb\}: