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Titus 3:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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1 Cor. 6:11• ¹¹And these things were some of you. But ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus [Christ] and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:11)

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1 Peter 4:3• ³For the past time [is] sufficient to have wrought out the will of the Gentiles, walking as ye had done in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revels, carousings, and unhallowed idolatries; (1 Peter 4:3)

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Rom. 3:9‑20• ⁹What then? are we better? Not at all; for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,
¹⁰even as it is written, “There is none righteous, not one;
¹¹there is not the [man] that understandeth; there is not the [man] that seeketh out God.
¹²All went out of the way, together they became unprofitable; there is none that practiceth kindness, there is not so much as one.”
¹³“An open grave [is] their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; venom of asps [is] under their lips;
¹⁴whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
¹⁵swift [are] their feet to shed blood;
¹⁶ruin and misery [are] in their ways;
¹⁷and no way of peace they knew.
¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
¹⁹Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it speaketh to those that [are] in the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment with God.
²⁰Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him, for by law [is] knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:9‑20)

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1 Cor. 6:9‑11• ⁹What! know ye not that unjust [men] shall not inherit God's kingdom? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers of themselves as women, nor abusers of themselves with men,
¹⁰nor rapacious, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit God's kingdom.
¹¹And these things were some of you. But ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus [Christ] and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:9‑11)

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Eph. 2:1‑3• ¹And you, being dead in your offences and your sins,
²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
³among whom we all also had our conversation once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were children, by nature, of wrath even as the rest; (Eph. 2:1‑3)

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Col. 1:21• ²¹And you [who] once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, (Col. 1:21)

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Col. 3:7• ⁷in which ye also once walked when ye lived in these things. (Col. 3:7)

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1 Peter 4:1‑3• ¹Since Christ then suffered [for us] in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; because he that suffered in flesh hath ceased from sin,
²no longer to live the rest of time in flesh to men's lusts but to God's will.
³For the past time [is] sufficient to have wrought out the will of the Gentiles, walking as ye had done in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revels, carousings, and unhallowed idolatries; (1 Peter 4:1‑3)

foolish.

Prov. 1:22‑23• (Prov. 1:22‑23)

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Prov. 8:5• (Prov. 8:5)

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Prov. 9:6• (Prov. 9:6)

disobedient.

Matt. 21:29• ²⁹And he answered and said, I will not; but afterward he regretted and went. (Matt. 21:29)

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Acts 9:1‑6• ¹But Saul, still breathing threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
²and asked of him letters unto Damascus to the synagogues; so that, if he found any belonging to the way, both men and women, he might bring [them] bound unto Jerusalem.
³And as he was journeying, it came to pass that he drew near to Damascus, and suddenly there shone round him a light out of heaven,
⁴and falling upon the earth he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
⁵And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he [said], I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest;
⁶but arise and enter into the city; and it shall be told thee what thou must do. (Acts 9:1‑6)

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Acts 26:19‑20• ¹⁹Whence, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
²⁰but reported both to those in Damascus first, and in Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judea and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance. (Acts 26:19‑20)

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Eph. 2:2• ²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience; (Eph. 2:2)

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1 Peter 1:14• ¹⁴as children of obedience, not conformed to the former lusts in your ignorance, (1 Peter 1:14)

deceived.

Isa. 44:20• (Isa. 44:20)

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Obad. 3• (Obad. 3)

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Luke 21:8• ⁸And he said, See that ye be not misled. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am [he]; and the time is drawn nigh: go ye not after them. (Luke 21:8)

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Gal. 6:3• ³For if anyone reputeth himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. (Gal. 6:3)

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James 1:26• ²⁶If anyone thinks he is religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this [man's] religion is vain. (James 1:26)

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Rev. 12:9• ⁹And the great dragon was cast {i}out{/i}, the ancient serpent, that is called {i}the{/i} Devil and Satan, that deceiveth the whole habitable {i}world{/i}: he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast with him. (Rev. 12:9)

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Rev. 13:14• ¹⁴and he deceiveth those that dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to do before the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, who hath the wound of the sword and lived. (Rev. 13:14)

serving.

John 8:34• ³⁴Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Every one that practiceth sin is a bondman of sin. (John 8:34)

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Rom. 6:17,22• ¹⁷But thanks to God that ye were bondservants of sin, but ye obeyed from the heart the form of teaching unto which ye were delivered;
²²But now freed from sin, and made bondservants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end life eternal. (Rom. 6:17,22)

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Rom. 1:29‑31• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, ill-will; whisperers,
³⁰slanderers, God-hated, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, pitiless; (Rom. 1:29‑31)

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2 Cor. 12:20• ²⁰For I fear lest by any means on coming I find you not such as I wish, and I be found by you such as ye wish not; lest by any means [there be] strife, jealousy, wraths, feuds, slanderings, whisperings, swellings, confusions; (2 Cor. 12:20)

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2 Tim. 3:2‑3• ²For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
³without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, uncontrolled, fierce, haters of good, (2 Tim. 3:2‑3)

hateful.

Psa. 36:2• (Psa. 36:2)

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Rev. 18:2• ²And he cried with a strong voice, saying, Fallen [fallen] is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a haunt of every unclean spirit, and a haunt of every unclean and hated bird. (Rev. 18:2)

• It is evident that this was intended to strengthen the duty of subjection to authority on the one hand, and on the other the spirit of mild and meek bearing to all mankind, in all those who bear the name of the Lord. Grace was to prevail and display itself all round. (“On Titus 3:3” by W. Kelly)

• From a condition so desperate Christ; Himself the obedient Man, though infinitely more than man, alone delivers, and this by imparting His own life through faith. (“On Titus 3:3” by W. Kelly)

• We were not only wandering in error, but "deceived," however highly we may have thought of our independence and shrewd judgment. (“On Titus 3:3” by W. Kelly)

• Nor was the evil confined to disease of the mind. We were "serving divers lusts and pleasures"; so much the more bondmen, because we flattered ourselves that we were pre-eminently free. We did our own will and pleased ourselves; we chose our pleasures here or there as we liked. What was this but to be slaves of the devil when we were pursuing divers lusts and pleasures? Our will is his slavery. (“On Titus 3:3” by W. Kelly)

• The thought that it is sin, and that we also were formerly its slaves, produces patience and piety. Grace alone has made the difference. (“Titus 3” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

W. Kelly Translation

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For at one time even we were foolish, disobedient, gonea astray, in slavery to divers lusts and pleasures, passing time in malice and envy, abominable, hating one another.

WK Translation Notes

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Or, "led."