Titus 3 Footnotes

3:5 This verse is consistent with texts affirming the importance of good works. The NT uniformly teaches that although good works are not a requirement for salvation, they are an inevitable result of salvation. The same gospel that saved sinners like Paul transformed them morally and ethically (v. 3). Verse 8 further insists on the importance of good works as true faith’s necessary expression.

3:9 See note on 1Tm 1:4.