Titus 2:15
New International Version
These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.

New Living Translation
You must teach these things and encourage the believers to do them. You have the authority to correct them when necessary, so don’t let anyone disregard what you say.

English Standard Version
Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

Berean Standard Bible
Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Berean Literal Bible
Speak these things, and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

King James Bible
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

New King James Version
Speak these things, exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

New American Standard Bible
These things speak and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. No one is to disregard you.

NASB 1995
These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

NASB 1977
These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

Legacy Standard Bible
These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

Amplified Bible
Tell them these things. Encourage and rebuke with full authority. Let no one disregard or despise you [conduct yourself and your teaching so as to command respect].

Christian Standard Bible
Proclaim these things; encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Say these things, and encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

American Standard Version
These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Speak these things; beseech and rebuke with all authority, and no man should despise you.

Contemporary English Version
Teach these things, as you use your full authority to encourage and correct people. Make sure you earn everyone's respect.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These things speak, and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

English Revised Version
These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Tell these things to the believers. Encourage and correct them, using your full authority. Don't let anyone ignore you.

Good News Translation
Teach these things and use your full authority as you encourage and rebuke your hearers. Let none of them look down on you.

International Standard Version
These are the things you should teach. Encourage and refute with full authority. Do not let anyone look down on you.

Literal Standard Version
Speak these things, and exhort and convict with all authority; let no one despise you!

Majority Standard Bible
Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

New American Bible
Say these things. Exhort and correct with all authority. Let no one look down on you.

NET Bible
So communicate these things with the sort of exhortation or rebuke that carries full authority. Don't let anyone look down on you.

New Revised Standard Version
Declare these things; exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one look down on you.

New Heart English Bible
Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Webster's Bible Translation
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

Weymouth New Testament
Thus speak, exhort, reprove, with all impressiveness. Let no one make light of your authority.

World English Bible
Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Young's Literal Translation
these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!

Additional Translations ...
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Context
God's Grace Brings Salvation
14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. 15Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Cross References
1 Corinthians 16:11
No one, then, should treat him with contempt. Send him on his way in peace so that he can return to me, for I am expecting him along with the brothers.

1 Timothy 4:12
Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

1 Timothy 4:13
Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, and to teaching.

1 Timothy 5:20
But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.

2 Timothy 4:2
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.

Titus 1:13
This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith

1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.


Treasury of Scripture

These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise you.

speak.

Titus 1:13
This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

2 Timothy 4:2
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

with.

Matthew 7:29
For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

Mark 1:22,27
And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes…

Luke 4:36
And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.

Let.

1 Timothy 4:12
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

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Titus 2
1. Directions given unto Titus both for his doctrine and life.
10. Of the duty of servants, and in general of all Christians.














(15) These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority.--These words are the conclusion of this part of the Letter of St. Paul to Titus. A new division of the Epistle begins immediately after this verse with the third chapter. He is to speak the words--many of them sharp and bitter--told him by St. Paul; he is to remember now to exhort, now to rebuke, and all this "with authority," as chief pastor of the flock of Crete formally commissioned and appointed.

Let no man despise thee.--"Speak," wrote the brave-hearted old man Paul, "speak with decision, and rebuke and punish if need be with vigour, remembering the dark character of the people with whom you have to do." And perhaps in the background of this stirring admonition of the aged master to his disciple, placed in so difficult and responsible a position, there is the anxious warning again: Yes, but show all diligence too in your own words and doings, so that every word of thine may have its full weight, that none may despise thee on account of thine own life.

Verse 15. - Reprove fur rebuke, A.V. Authority (ἐπιταγῆς); see 1 Timothy 1:1 and above, Titus 1:3, "authoritative commandment." Let no man despise thee (περιφρονείσω); here only in the New Testament; used in a different sense by the LXX. in Wisd. 1:1, but in the same sense as here in 4 Macc. 6:9, and also in classical Greek. In 1 Timothy 4:12 and 1 Tim 6:2 St. Paul uses the more common word, καταφρονέω. The apostle thus winds up the preceding portion of his Epistle.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Speak
λάλει (lalei)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 2980: A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. Utter words.

these things
Ταῦτα (Tauta)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

[as]
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

you encourage
παρακάλει (parakalei)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 3870: From para and kaleo; to call near, i.e. Invite, invoke.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

rebuke
ἔλεγχε (elenche)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 1651: (a) I reprove, rebuke, discipline, (b) I expose, show to be guilty. Of uncertain affinity; to confute, admonish.

with
μετὰ (meta)
Preposition
Strong's 3326: (a) gen: with, in company with, (b) acc: (1) behind, beyond, after, of place, (2) after, of time, with nouns, neut. of adjectives.

all
πάσης (pasēs)
Adjective - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

authority.
ἐπιταγῆς (epitagēs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 2003: Instruction, command, order, authority. From epitasso; an injunction or decree; by implication, authoritativeness.

{Let} no one
μηδείς (mēdeis)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3367: No one, none, nothing.

despise
περιφρονείτω (periphroneitō)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4065: To look down upon, despise. From peri and phroneo; to think beyond, i.e. Depreciate.

you.
σου (sou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.


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