Titus 3:3

Good News Translation

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them.

Cross References

Genesis 38:9

But Onan knew that the children would not belong to him, so when he had intercourse with his brother's widow, he let the semen spill on the ground, so that there would be no children for his brother.

Genesis 39:16

She kept his robe with her until Joseph's master came home.

Psalm 36:2

Because they think so highly of themselves, they think that God will not discover their sin and condemn it.

Proverbs 8:5

Are you immature? Learn to be mature. Are you foolish? Learn to have sense.

Proverbs 9:6

Leave the company of ignorant people, and live. Follow the way of knowledge.”

Isaiah 44:20

It makes as much sense as eating ashes. His foolish ideas have so misled him that he is beyond help. He won't admit to himself that the idol he holds in his hand is not a god at all.

Obadiah 1:3

Your pride has deceived you. Your capital is a fortress of solid rock; your home is high in the mountains, and so you say to yourself, ‘Who can ever pull me down?’

Matthew 21:29

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

Luke 21:8

Jesus said, “Watch out; don't be fooled. Many men, claiming to speak for me, will come and say, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time has come!’ But don't follow them.

John 8:34

Jesus said to them, “I am telling you the truth: everyone who sins is a slave of sin.

Romans 11:30

As for you Gentiles, you disobeyed God in the past; but now you have received God's mercy because the Jews were disobedient.

Romans 6:12

Sin must no longer rule in your mortal bodies, so that you obey the desires of your natural self.

Romans 6:17

But thanks be to God! For though at one time you were slaves to sin, you have obeyed with all your heart the truths found in the teaching you received.

Romans 6:22

But now you have been set free from sin and are the slaves of God. Your gain is a life fully dedicated to him, and the result is eternal life.

Romans 6:6

And we know that our old being has been put to death with Christ on his cross, in order that the power of the sinful self might be destroyed, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin.

2 Corinthians 12:20

I am afraid that when I get there I will find you different from what I would like you to be and you will find me different from what you would like me to be. I am afraid that I will find quarreling and jealousy, hot tempers and selfishness, insults and gossip, pride and disorder.

Galatians 6:3

If you think you are something when you really are nothing, you are only deceiving yourself.

Colossians 1:21

At one time you were far away from God and were his enemies because of the evil things you did and thought.

Colossians 3:7

At one time you yourselves used to live according to such desires, when your life was dominated by them.

2 Timothy 3:13

and evil persons and impostors will keep on going from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.

2 Timothy 3:6

Some of them go into people's houses and gain control over weak women who are burdened by the guilt of their sins and driven by all kinds of desires,

Titus 1:16

They claim that they know God, but their actions deny it. They are hateful and disobedient, not fit to do anything good.

Titus 2:12

That grace instructs us to give up ungodly living and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this world,

James 1:26

Do any of you think you are religious? If you do not control your tongue, your religion is worthless and you deceive yourself.

1 Peter 1:14

Be obedient to God, and do not allow your lives to be shaped by those desires you had when you were still ignorant.

Revelation 12:9

The huge dragon was thrown out—that ancient serpent, named the Devil, or Satan, that deceived the whole world. He was thrown down to earth, and all his angels with him.

Revelation 13:14

And it deceived all the people living on earth by means of the miracles which it was allowed to perform in the presence of the first beast. The beast told them to build an image in honor of the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet lived.

Revelation 18:2

He cried out in a loud voice: “She has fallen! Great Babylon has fallen! She is now haunted by demons and unclean spirits; all kinds of filthy and hateful birds live in her.