Titus 3:1
Good News Translation
Remind your people to submit to rulers and authorities, to obey them, and to be ready to do good in every way.

New Revised Standard Version
Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

Contemporary English Version
Remind your people to obey the rulers and authorities and not to be rebellious. They must always be ready to do something helpful

New American Bible
Remind them to be under the control of magistrates and authorities, to be obedient, to be open to every good enterprise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Admonish them to be subject to princes and powers, to obey at a word, to be ready to every good work.

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Admonish them to be subject to princes and powers, to obey at a word, to be ready to every good work.

Put.

Isaiah 43:26 Put me in remembrance, and let us plead together: tell if thou hast any thing to justify thyself.

1 Timothy 4:6 These things proposing to the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished up in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which thou hast attained unto.

2 Timothy 1:6 For which cause I admonish thee that thou stir up the grace of God which is in thee by the imposition of my hands.

2 Peter 1:12 For which cause, I will begin to put you always in remembrance of these things: though indeed you know them and are confirmed in the present truth.

2 Peter 3:1,2 Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which, I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind: . . .

Jude 1:5 I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not.

to be subject.

Deuteronomy 17:12 But he that will be proud, and refuse to obey the commandment of the priest, who ministereth at that time to the Lord thy God, and the decree of the judge, that man shall die, and thou shalt take away the evil from Israel:

Proverbs 24:21 My son, fear the Lord, and the king: and have nothing to do with detractors.

Ecclesiastes 8:2-5 I observe the mouth of the king, and the commandments of the oath of God. . . .

Ecclesiastes 10:4 If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease.

Jeremiah 27:17 Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of Babylon, that you may live. Why should this city be given up to desolation?

Matthew 22:21 They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's.

Matthew 23:2,3 Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. . . .

Romans 13:1-7 Let every soul be subject to higher powers. For there is no power but from God: and those that are ordained of God. . . .

1 Timothy 2:2 For kings and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.

1 Peter 2:13-17 Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling, . . .

to be ready.

Titus 3:8,14 It is a faithful saying. And these things I will have thee affirm constantly, that they who believe in God may be careful to excel in good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. . . .

Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable: always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Galatians 6:9,10 And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing. . . .

Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.

Philippians 1:11 Filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Colossians 1:10 That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God:

1 Timothy 5:10 Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work.

2 Timothy 2:21 If any man therefore shall cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified and profitable to the Lord, prepared unto every good work.

Hebrews 13:21 Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Context
Obedience to Authorities
1Admonish them to be subject to princes and powers, to obey at a word, to be ready to every good work. 2To speak evil of no man, not to be litigious but gentle: shewing all mildness towards all men.…
Cross References
Romans 13:1
Let every soul be subject to higher powers. For there is no power but from God: and those that are ordained of God.

2 Timothy 2:14
Of these things put them in mind, charging them before the Lord. Contend not in words: for it is to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

2 Timothy 2:21
If any man therefore shall cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified and profitable to the Lord, prepared unto every good work.

Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him: being abominable and incredulous and to every good work reprobate.

Titus 2:15
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