Titus 1:15
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
KJV
πάντα καθαρὰ τοῖς καθαροῖς· τοῖς δὲ μεμιαμμένοις καὶ ἀπίστοις οὐδὲν καθαρόν, ἀλλὰ μεμίανται αὐτῶν καὶ ὁ νοῦς καὶ ἡ συνείδησις.
Greek NT
Omnia munda mundis : coinquinatis autem et infidelibus, nihil est mundum, sed inquinatæ sunt eorum et mens et conscientia.
Vulgate
To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
ASV
All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- πάντα — SBLGNT
- πάντα — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + μὲν — Robinson-Pierpont
Themes
Historic Christian voices
9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Having manifested what he was and what he is, he shows the great fruit of his confession; and being about to examine by what method God and the happy life may be found, he enlarges on the nature and power of memory. Then he examines his own acts, thoughts and affections, viewed under the threefold division of temptation; and commemorates the Lord, the one mediator of God and me…
Abba Poemen said, "If a man has attained to that which the Apostle speaks of, 'to the pure, everything is pure,' he sees himself less than all creatures." A brother said, "How can I deem myself less than a murderer?" The old man said, "When a man has really comprehended this saying, if he sees a man committing a murder, he says: 'He has only committed this one sin but I commit …
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Cross-references
- 1Cor 6:12 — All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
- 1Cor 7:14 — For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
- 1Cor 8:7 — Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
- 1Cor 10:23 — All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
- 1Cor 10:25 — Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
- 1Cor 10:31 — Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
- 1Tim 1:5 — Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
- 1Tim 4:3 — Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
- 1Tim 6:5 — Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
- Acts 10:15 — And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
- Acts 10:15 — And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
- Acts 24:16 — And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
- Col 1:21 — And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
- Hag 2:14 — Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
- Heb 10:22 — Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
- Jas 3:17 — But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
- Jer 11:15 — What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
- Jude 1:4 — For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our
- Lev 10:10 — And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
- Luke 11:39 — And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
- Luke 11:39 — And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
- Luke 11:41 — But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
- Mark 7:15 — There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
- Mark 7:23 — All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
- Matt 5:8 — Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
- Matt 15:11 — Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
- Matt 15:18 — But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
- Prov 30:12 — There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
- Rom 2:15 — Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
- Rom 14:2 — For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
- Rom 14:14 — I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
- Rom 14:14 — I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
- Rom 14:20 — For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
- Rom 14:20 — For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
- Rom 14:23 — And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
- Rom 14:23 — And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.