1Ti 6:3, Tit 1:11, 16 | JFB | STEP | 3. teach otherwise —than I desire thee to "teach" ( ). The Greek indicative implies, he puts not a merely supposed case, but one actually existing, , " Every one who teaches otherwise," that is, who teaches heterodoxy. consent not — Greek, "accede not to." wholesome —"sound" ( ): opposed to the false teachers' words, unsound through profitless science and immorality. words of our Lord Jesus Christ —Paul's inspired words are not merely his own, but are also Christ's words.

1 Timothy 6:3

3. teach otherwise—than I desire thee to "teach" (1Ti 6:2). The Greek indicative implies, he puts not a merely supposed case, but one actually existing, 1Ti 1:3, "Every one who teaches otherwise," that is, who teaches heterodoxy.

consent not—Greek, "accede not to."

wholesome—"sound" (1Ti 1:10): opposed to the false teachers' words, unsound through profitless science and immorality.

words of our Lord Jesus Christ—Paul's inspired words are not merely his own, but are also Christ's words.

Titus 1:11

11. mouths . . . stopped—literally, "muzzled," "bridled" as an unruly beast (compare Ps 32:9).

who—Greek, "(seeing that they are) such men as"; or "inasmuch as they" [ELLICOTT].

subvert . . . houses—"overthrowing" their "faith" (2Ti 2:18). "They are the devil's levers by which he subverts the houses of God" [THEOPHYLACT].

for filthy lucre— (1Ti 3:3, 8; 6:5).

Titus 1:16

16. They profess—that is, make a profession acknowledging God. He does not deny their theoretical knowledge of God, but that they practically know Him.

deny him—the opposite of the previous "profess" or "confess" Him (1Ti 5:8; 2Ti 2:12; 3:5).

abominable—themselves, though laying so much stress on the contracting of abomination from outward things (compare Le 11:10-13; Ro 2:22).

disobedient—to God (Tit 3:3; Eph 2:2; 5:6).

reprobate—rejected as worthless when tested (see on Ro 1:28; 1Co 9:27; 2Ti 3:8).