And our people must also learn to devote themselves to good works in order to meet the pressing needs of others, so that they will not be unfruitful.
We are all by nature greedy for power, unwilling to submit to anyone, and we saw the magistrates opposed to Christ and thought them unworthy of honor. Paul commands subjection to rulers and obedience to their laws and edicts not as optional, but as a general duty binding on all believers.
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Commenting on Titus 3:1-15
Idle questions about genealogies and the law are poison to the church. Some inquiry serves godliness and truth, but the judaizers traffick in foolish curiosities that feed vanity and dispute, these you must cut off and refuse them a hearing. Do not let such men trouble your flock with what Christ has already abolished.
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Commenting on Titus 3:9-15
Good works mean more than honest trades, though a man must learn his craft to feed himself and help others. All works done in faith, from love, to God's glory belong here, acts of mercy to the poor, to Christ's household, to strangers. This is how believers prove they are not idle and useless in the world.
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