Titus 3:10
New International Version
Warn a divisive person once, and then warn them a second time. After that, have nothing to do with them.

New Living Translation
If people are causing divisions among you, give a first and second warning. After that, have nothing more to do with them.

English Standard Version
As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,

Berean Standard Bible
Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition,

Berean Literal Bible
Reject a factious man after one and a second admonition,

King James Bible
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;

New King James Version
Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition,

New American Standard Bible
Reject a divisive person after a first and second warning,

NASB 1995
Reject a factious man after a first and second warning,

NASB 1977
Reject a factious man after a first and second warning,

Legacy Standard Bible
Reject a factious man after a first and second warning,

Amplified Bible
After a first and second warning reject a divisive man [who promotes heresy and causes dissension—ban him from your fellowship and have nothing more to do with him],

Christian Standard Bible
Reject a divisive person after a first and second warning.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Reject a divisive person after a first and second warning,

American Standard Version
A factious man after a first and second admonition refuse;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Avoid a man who is a heretic after the first and second admonitions,

Contemporary English Version
Warn troublemakers once or twice. Then don't have anything else to do with them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid:

English Revised Version
A man that is heretical after a first and second admonition refuse;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Have nothing to do with people who continue to teach false doctrine after you have warned them once or twice.

Good News Translation
Give at least two warnings to those who cause divisions, and then have nothing more to do with them.

International Standard Version
Have nothing to do with a divisive person after you have warned him once or twice.

Literal Standard Version
Reject a heretical man, after a first and second admonition,

Majority Standard Bible
Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition,

New American Bible
After a first and second warning, break off contact with a heretic,

NET Bible
Reject a divisive person after one or two warnings.

New Revised Standard Version
After a first and second admonition, have nothing more to do with anyone who causes divisions,

New Heart English Bible
Reject a divisive person after a first and second warning;

Webster's Bible Translation
A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject;

Weymouth New Testament
After a first and second admonition, have nothing further to do with any one who will not be taught;

World English Bible
Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,

Young's Literal Translation
A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,

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Context
Avoiding Divisions
9But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless. 10Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition, 11knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful; he is self-condemned.…

Cross References
Matthew 18:15
If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.

Romans 16:17
Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.

2 John 1:10
If anyone comes to you but does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home or even greet him.


Treasury of Scripture

A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject;

heretick.

1 Corinthians 11:19
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

Galatians 5:20
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

2 Peter 2:1
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

after.

Matthew 18:15-17
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother…

2 Corinthians 13:2
I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

reject.

Romans 16:17
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

1 Corinthians 5:4-13
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, …

Galatians 5:12
I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

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Titus 3
1. Titus is further directed by Paul concerning the things that he should teach and not teach.
10. He is to reject obstinate heretics.
12. Paul appoints him time and place wherein he should come unto him.














(10) A man that is an heretick.--The Greek word translated "heretick" in the New Testament occurs here only. The term "heresies" occurs twice (1Corinthians 11:19; Galatians 5:20). In neither, however, of these passages does the word signify there a fundamental or doctrinal error. This sense belongs to a usage of later times. From the meaning of the word "heresy" in these passages of St. Paul, we are able to deduce the signification of the term "heretic" here. The "heretic" of the Church in Crete appears to have been a man who, dissatisfied with the organisation and discipline introduced by Titus into the Christian community--not improbably considering himself in some way slighted--withdrew himself from the common body, and gathering round him other discontented spirits, established what might be termed a rival Church in Crete. Although at first, perhaps, no marked erroneous teaching forms part of the practice of such schismatics, still the tendency in such small rival communities is ever more and more to distinguish between their teaching and that of the larger body from whom they, in the first instance, cut themselves adrift.

After the first and second admonition reject.--The Greek word rendered "reject" would be more accurately translated shun, or avoid. There was, no doubt, some self-willed factious party leader in Crete well known to St. Paul to whom he referred here; but partly out of a loving hope that Titus would win him to his side, partly from the knowledge that this Letter was a public instruction to many a Church besides that of Crete, the disturber remained nameless. He was to be exhorted once, twice, and then if he remained contumacious he was to be left simply alone to his own devices. The community over which Titus presided in the place of Paul no longer were to know the obstinate heretic as a brother.

Verse 10. - Heretical for an heretick, A.V.; a for the, A.V.; refuse for reject, A.V. Heretical (αἱρετικόν); only here in the New Testament, not found in the LXX., but used in classical Greek for "intelligent," i.e. able to choose. The use of it here by St. Paul is drawn from the use of αἵρεσις for "a sect" (Acts 5:17; Acts 15:5; Acts 24:5, 14; Acts 26:5; Acts 28:22; 1 Corinthians 11:19; Galatians 5:20; 2 Peter 2:1), or the doctrines taught by a sect. The heretic is one who forsakes the truth held by the Church, and chooses some doctrine of his own devising (αἵρεσις). The tendency of such departures from the doctrine of the Church to assume more and more of a deadly character, and to depart wider and wider from the truth, gave to the name of heretic a darker shade of condemnation in the mouth of Church writers as time advanced. But even in apostolic times some denied the resurrection (2 Timothy 2:11, 12); others denied the Lord that bought them (2 Peter 2:1); and there were some who were of the synagogue of Satan (Revelation 2:9); so that already an heretical man, drawing away disciples after him, was a great blot in the Church. Admonition (νουθεσία); as 1 Corinthians 10:11; Ephesians 6:4. After a first and second admonition refuse (παραιτοῦ); see 1 Timothy 4:7; 1 Timothy 5:11. It does not clearly appear what is intended by this term In 1 Timothy 5:11 it meant refusing admission into the college of Church widows. If these had been persons seeking admission into the Church, or ordination, it would mean "refuse them." Vitringa (Huther) thinks it means "excommunication." Beza, Ellicott, Huther, Alford, etc., render it "shun," "let alone," "cease to admonish," and the like.

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Greek
Reject
παραιτοῦ (paraitou)
Verb - Present Imperative Middle or Passive - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 3868: From para and the middle voice of aiteo; to beg off, i.e. Deprecate, decline, shun.

a divisive
αἱρετικὸν (hairetikon)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 141: Disposed to form sects, sectarian, heretical, factious. From the same as hairetizo; a schismatic.

man
ἄνθρωπον (anthrōpon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.

after
μετὰ (meta)
Preposition
Strong's 3326: (a) gen: with, in company with, (b) acc: (1) behind, beyond, after, of place, (2) after, of time, with nouns, neut. of adjectives.

a first
μίαν (mian)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1520: One. (including the neuter Hen); a primary numeral; one.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

second
δευτέραν (deuteran)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1208: Second; with the article: in the second place, for the second time. As the compare of duo; second.

admonition,
νουθεσίαν (nouthesian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3559: A warning, admonition, counsel. From nous and a derivative of tithemi; calling attention to, i.e. mild rebuke or warning.


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