Titus 1:14-16

Qualifications for Elders

¹⁴ _g not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and _h the commands of people _i who turn away from the truth. ¹⁵ _j To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and _k unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both _l their minds and their consciences are defiled. ¹⁶ _m They profess to know God, but they _n deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, _o unfit for any good work.

1. Cross References
   1 Timothy 1:4
   Nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.
   
2. Cross References
   Colossians 2:22
   ( referring to things that all perish as they are used) - according to human precepts and teachings?
   
3. Cross References
   1 Timothy 6:20
   O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge.
   
4. Cross References
   Luke 11:41
   But give as alms those things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.
   1 Timothy 4:3
   Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
   Acts 10:15
   And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has made clean, do not call common.
   
5. Cross References
   Romans 14:23
   But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
   
6. Cross References
   1 Timothy 6:5
   And constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
   
7. Cross References
   1 John 2:4
   Whoever says "I know him" but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
   
8. Cross References
   1 Timothy 5:8
   But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
   
9. Cross References
   2 Timothy 3:8
   Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.