Titus 3:1-11

Tree of Life Version

Be Ready for Good Deeds

3 Remind the people to be submitted to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed, ² to slander no one, without fighting, gentle, showing every courtesy to all people. ³ For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

⁸ Trustworthy is the saying, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have put their trust in God may be careful to devote themselves to good deeds. These things are good and beneficial for people.

⁹ But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about Torah, for they are unprofitable and useless. ¹⁰ Dismiss a quarrelsome person after a first and second warning, ¹¹ knowing that such a person is twisted and is sinning—he is self-condemned.