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  • Titus 2:15
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 15 Keep on speaking these things and exhorting* and reproving with full authority.+ Do not let anyone look down on you.

  • Titus 2:15
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 15 Ταῦτα These (things) λάλει be you speaking καὶ and παρακάλει be you encouraging καὶ and ἔλεγχε be you reproving μετὰ with πάσης all ἐπιταγῆς. enjoinder. μηδείς No one σου of you περιφρονείτω. let be minding around.

  • Titus 2:15
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 15 Keep on speaking these things and exhorting and reproving with full authority to command.*+ Let no man ever despise+ you.

  • Titus 2:15
    The Bible in Living English
    • 15* Speak these things and exhort to them and see to people’s conformity to them, with all imperativeness; let nobody make light of you.

  • Titus 2:15
    American Standard Version
    • 15 These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

  • Titus 2:15
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 15 As to these things be speaking and exhorting and reproving with all manner of precept: Let no one disregard thee!

  • Titus 2:15
    King James Version
    • 15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

  • Titus
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 2:15 w89 9/15 24

  • Titus
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 2:15 w63 661

  • Titus
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 2:15

      The Watchtower,

      9/15/1989, p. 24

  • Titus Study Notes—Chapter 2
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 2:15

      Keep on speaking . . . and exhorting and reproving: Paul concludes this passage of his letter to Titus with a series of exhortations that are progressively more forceful. Paul knew that an overseer might need to give only a kind reminder to some, whereas others he would need to exhort; still others he would need to reprove. With a few, he might need to take all three steps. Titus would start by “speaking these things,” then “exhorting” the individuals if they failed to listen, then “reproving” them if they turned a deaf ear to his exhortations. Titus could take these steps confidently, knowing that he had “full authority” to carry out this assignment.

      Do not let anyone look down on you: Paul here uses a Greek verb that may suggest that Titus’ opponents took a superior attitude toward him. But Titus should remember that as an appointed elder, he had “full authority” to exhort and reprove those who disrupted the peace and unity of the congregation.​—Compare 1Ti 4:12, where Paul uses a similar verb to indicate the disdain that some might have shown for Timothy because of his youth.

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