Titus 2:12 Cross References

Titus 2:12

12: And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with self-control, right conduct, and devotion to God,

Ezekiel 36:27

  1. And I will put my Spirit in you so you will obey my laws and do whatever I command.

Matthew 16:24

  1. Then Jesus said to the disciples, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must put aside your selfish ambition, shoulder your cross, and follow me.

Romans 6:19

  1. I speak this way, using the illustration of slaves and masters, because it is easy to understand. Before, you let yourselves be slaves of impurity and lawlessness. Now you must choose to be slaves of righteousness so that you will become holy.

Psalms 4:3

  1. You can be sure of this: The LORD has set apart the godly for himself. The LORD will answer when I call to him.

Luke 1:75

  1. in holiness and righteousness forever.

2 Timothy 3:12

  1. Yes, and everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

  1. God has called us to be holy, not to live impure lives.

1 John 2:6

  1. Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Christ did.

Isaiah 55:6

  1. Seek the LORD while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near.
  2. Let the people turn from their wicked deeds. Let them banish from their minds the very thought of doing wrong! Let them turn to the LORD that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

2 Peter 2:9

  1. So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while punishing the wicked right up until the day of judgment.

2 Peter 1:4

  1. And by that same mighty power, he has given us all of his rich and wonderful promises. He has promised that you will escape the decadence all around you caused by evil desires and that you will share in his divine nature.
  2. So make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life. Then your faith will produce a life of moral excellence. A life of moral excellence leads to knowing God better.
  3. Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness.
  4. Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone.
  5. The more you grow like this, the more you will become productive and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 4:22

  1. throw off your old evil nature and your former way of life, which is rotten through and through, full of lust and deception.
  2. Instead, there must be a spiritual renewal of your thoughts and attitudes.
  3. You must display a new nature because you are a new person, created in God's likeness--righteous, holy, and true.
  4. So put away all falsehood and "tell your neighbor the truth" because we belong to each other.

Revelation 14:12

  1. Let this encourage God's holy people to endure persecution patiently and remain firm to the end, obeying his commands and trusting in Jesus."

1 Peter 1:14

  1. Obey God because you are his children. Don't slip back into your old ways of doing evil; you didn't know any better then.
  2. But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God--who chose you to be his children--is holy.
  3. For he himself has said, "You must be holy because I am holy."
  4. And remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites when he judges. He will judge or reward you according to what you do. So you must live in reverent fear of him during your time as foreigners here on earth.
  5. For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver.

Romans 8:13

  1. For if you keep on following it, you will perish. But if through the power of the Holy Spirit you turn from it and its evil deeds, you will live.

2 Peter 3:11

  1. Since everything around us is going to melt away, what holy, godly lives you should be living!

Romans 6:12

  1. Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to its lustful desires.

2 Peter 2:20

  1. And when people escape from the wicked ways of the world by learning about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up with sin and become its slave again, they are worse off than before.
  2. It would be better if they had never known the right way to live than to know it and then reject the holy commandments that were given to them.
  3. They make these proverbs come true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and "A washed pig returns to the mud."

Colossians 3:5

  1. So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual sin, impurity, lust, and shameful desires. Don't be greedy for the good things of this life, for that is idolatry.
  2. God's terrible anger will come upon those who do such things.
  3. You used to do them when your life was still part of this world.
  4. But now is the time to get rid of anger, rage, malicious behavior, slander, and dirty language.
  5. Don't lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old evil nature and all its wicked deeds.

1 John 2:15

  1. Stop loving this evil world and all that it offers you, for when you love the world, you show that you do not have the love of the Father in you.
  2. For the world offers only the lust for physical pleasure, the lust for everything we see, and pride in our possessions. These are not from the Father. They are from this evil world.
  3. And this world is fading away, along with everything it craves. But if you do the will of God, you will live forever.

1 John 2:27

  1. But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don't need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you all things, and what he teaches is true--it is not a lie. So continue in what he has taught you, and continue to live in Christ.

Acts 24:25

  1. As he reasoned with them about righteousness and self-control and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified. "Go away for now," he replied. "When it is more convenient, I'll call for you again."

Titus 3:3

  1. Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled by others and became slaves to many wicked desires and evil pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy. We hated others, and they hated us.

Ephesians 2:2

  1. You used to live just like the rest of the world, full of sin, obeying Satan, the mighty prince of the power of the air. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God.

John 6:25

  1. When they arrived and found him, they asked, "Teacher, how did you get here?"

Matthew 28:20

  1. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

Ezekiel 18:30

  1. "Therefore, I will judge each of you, O people of Israel, according to your actions, says the Sovereign LORD. Turn from your sins! Don't let them destroy you!
  2. Put all your rebellion behind you, and get for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O people of Israel?

Ezekiel 33:14

  1. And suppose I tell some wicked people that they will surely die, but then they turn from their sins and do what is just and right.
  2. For instance, they might give back a borrower's pledge, return what they have stolen, and obey my life-giving laws, no longer doing what is evil. If they do this, then they will surely live and not die.

Galatians 1:4

  1. He died for our sins, just as God our Father planned, in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live.

Colossians 1:22

  1. yet now he has brought you back as his friends. He has done this through his death on the cross in his own human body. As a result, he has brought you into the very presence of God, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.

1 Peter 2:11

  1. Dear brothers and sisters, you are foreigners and aliens here. So I warn you to keep away from evil desires because they fight against your very souls.
  2. Be careful how you live among your unbelieving neighbors. Even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your honorable behavior, and they will believe and give honor to God when he comes to judge the world.

John 17:14

  1. I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not.
  2. I'm not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one.

James 4:8

  1. Draw close to God, and God will draw close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, you hypocrites.
  2. Let there be tears for the wrong things you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy.
  3. When you bow down before the Lord and admit your dependence on him, he will lift you up and give you honor.

1 Corinthians 6:9

  1. Don't you know that those who do wrong will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, who are idol worshipers, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,
  2. thieves, greedy people, drunkards, abusers, and swindlers--none of these will have a share in the Kingdom of God.
  3. There was a time when some of you were just like that, but now your sins have been washed away, and you have been set apart for God. You have been made right with God because of what the Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God have done for you.

Romans 6:4

  1. For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.
  2. Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised as he was.
  3. Our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.

1 Peter 4:2

  1. And you won't spend the rest of your life chasing after evil desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God.
  2. You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy--their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.
  3. Of course, your former friends are very surprised when you no longer join them in the wicked things they do, and they say evil things about you.
  4. But just remember that they will have to face God, who will judge everyone, both the living and the dead.

Hebrews 8:11

  1. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their family, saying, 'You should know the Lord.' For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will already know me.

1 John 5:19

  1. We know that we are children of God and that the world around us is under the power and control of the evil one.

John 14:30

  1. "I don't have much more time to talk to you, because the prince of this world approaches. He has no power over me,

Romans 12:2

  1. Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is.

Matthew 3:8

  1. Prove by the way you live that you have really turned from your sins and turned to God.
  2. Don't just say, 'We're safe--we're the descendants of Abraham.' That proves nothing. God can change these stones here into children of Abraham.
  3. Even now the ax of God's judgment is poised, ready to sever your roots. Yes, every tree that does not produce good fruit will be chopped down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 5:19

  1. So if you break the smallest commandment and teach others to do the same, you will be the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But anyone who obeys God's laws and teaches them will be great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
  2. "But I warn you--unless you obey God better than the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees do, you can't enter the Kingdom of Heaven at all!

Galatians 5:24

  1. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.

Luke 3:9

  1. Even now the ax of God's judgment is poised, ready to sever your roots. Yes, every tree that does not produce good fruit will be chopped down and thrown into the fire."
  2. The crowd asked, "What should we do?"
  3. John replied, "If you have two coats, give one to the poor. If you have food, share it with those who are hungry."
  4. Even corrupt tax collectors came to be baptized and asked, "Teacher, what should we do?"
  5. "Show your honesty," he replied. "Make sure you collect no more taxes than the Roman government requires you to."

2 Corinthians 1:12

  1. We can say with confidence and a clear conscience that we have been honest and sincere in all our dealings. We have depended on God's grace, not on our own earthly wisdom. That is how we have acted toward everyone, and especially toward you.

Acts 24:16

  1. Because of this, I always try to maintain a clear conscience before God and everyone else.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

  1. But I don't need to write to you about the Christian love that should be shown among God's people. For God himself has taught you to love one another.

Romans 13:12

  1. The night is almost gone; the day of salvation will soon be here. So don't live in darkness. Get rid of your evil deeds. Shed them like dirty clothes. Clothe yourselves with the armor of right living, as those who live in the light.
  2. We should be decent and true in everything we do, so that everyone can approve of our behavior. Don't participate in wild parties and getting drunk, or in adultery and immoral living, or in fighting and jealousy.

1 Timothy 4:12

  1. Don't let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you teach, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.

2 Corinthians 7:1

  1. Because we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit. And let us work toward complete purity because we fear God.

1 Timothy 6:17

  1. Tell those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which will soon be gone. But their trust should be in the living God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment.

Ephesians 1:4

  1. Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.

Luke 1:6

  1. Zechariah and Elizabeth were righteous in God's eyes, careful to obey all of the Lord's commandments and regulations.

Psalms 105:45

  1. All this happened so they would follow his principles and obey his laws. Praise the LORD!

Jude 1:18

  1. that in the last times there would be scoffers whose purpose in life is to enjoy themselves in every evil way imaginable.

2 Timothy 4:10

  1. Demas has deserted me because he loves the things of this life and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus has gone to Dalmatia.
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