提多书 1:2

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

這都是根據永生的盼望，這永生就是沒有謊言的　神在萬世以前所應許的。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
盼 望 那 无 谎 言 的 神 在 万 古 之 先 所 应 许 的 永 生 ，

Contextual Overview

¹ From Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ. I was sent to help the faith of God's chosen people and to help them know the truth that shows people how to serve God. ² That faith and that knowledge come from the hope for life forever, which God promised to us before time began. And God cannot lie. ³ At the right time God let the world know about that life through preaching. He trusted me with that work, and I preached by the command of God our Savior. ⁴ To Titus, my true child in the faith we share: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

In: or, For

hope: Titus 2:7, Titus 2:13, Titus 3:7, John 5:39, John 6:68, Romans 2:7, Romans 5:2, Romans 5:4, Colossians 1:27, 1 Thessalonians 5:8, 2 Timothy 1:1, 2 Timothy 2:10, 1 Peter 1:3, 1 Peter 1:4, 1 John 2:25, 1 John 3:2, 1 John 3:3, Jude 1:21

eternal: Matthew 25:46, Mark 10:17, Mark 10:30, John 3:15, John 3:16, John 6:54, John 10:28, John 17:2, Romans 5:21, Romans 6:23, 1 Timothy 6:12, 1 Timothy 6:19, 1 John 5:11-13, 1 John 5:20

God: Numbers 23:19, 1 Samuel 15:29, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 2 Timothy 2:15, Hebrews 6:17, Hebrews 6:18

promised: 2 Timothy 1:1, 2 Timothy 1:9, Revelation 17:8

before: Proverbs 8:23-31, Matthew 25:34, John 17:24, Acts 15:18, Romans 16:25, 1 Peter 1:20-23, Revelation 13:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:22 - for Genesis 21:1 - Sarah as Genesis 32:12 - thou Numbers 10:29 - for the Lord Deuteronomy 7:9 - the faithful Joshua 1:3 - General Joshua 21:45 - General 2 Samuel 7:28 - thy words 1 Chronicles 17:26 - thou art God Nehemiah 9:8 - righteous Psalms 31:5 - God Psalms 33:4 - all his Psalms 89:1 - thy faithfulness Psalms 89:35 - that I will not lie Psalms 91:4 - his truth Psalms 92:15 - To show Psalms 100:5 - and his truth Psalms 146:6 - keepeth truth Proverbs 19:22 - and Ecclesiastes 3:14 - whatsoever Isaiah 1:20 - for the mouth Lamentations 3:23 - great Matthew 13:35 - I will utter Matthew 19:16 - eternal Matthew 24:35 - my Mark 13:31 - my Mark 14:36 - all Luke 1:20 - which John 3:33 - hath set John 7:28 - is true John 14:2 - if Romans 1:2 - Which Romans 3:3 - faith Romans 3:4 - let God Romans 16:26 - now 1 Corinthians 1:9 - God Ephesians 1:4 - as Ephesians 3:9 - beginning Ephesians 4:4 - as Ephesians 4:25 - putting 1 Thessalonians 5:24 - Faithful 2 Thessalonians 2:16 - good 2 Timothy 2:13 - he cannot Hebrews 8:6 - upon Hebrews 9:15 - eternal Hebrews 10:23 - for 1 Peter 3:15 - the hope 1 John 1:2 - was manifested 1 John 3:9 - and he

Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced plants with grain for seeds and trees that made fruits with seeds in them. Each seed grew its own kind of plant. God saw that all this was good.

Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night. These lights will be used for signs, seasons, days, and years.

Job 26:7
God stretches the northern sky out over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 26:14
And these are only a small part of God's works. We only hear a small whisper of him. Who could understand God's thundering power?"

Psalms 33:6
The sky was made at the Lord 's command. By the breath from his mouth, he made all the stars.

Isaiah 45:18
The Lord created the heavens. He is the God who formed the earth and made it. He did not want it to be empty, but he wanted life on the earth. This is what the Lord says: "I am the Lord . There is no other God.

Nahum 2:10
Nineveh is robbed, ruined, and destroyed. The people lose their courage, and their knees knock. Stomachs ache, and everyone's face grows pale.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In hope of eternal life,.... Or "for the hope of eternal life"; in order to bring souls to the hope of it. This is another end of the Gospel ministry, as to bring God's elect to faith in Christ, and to the knowledge and acknowledgement of the truth, as it is in Jesus, so to the hope of eternal glory and happiness: in a state of nature, they are without the grace of hope, or any true ground and foundation of it; and though it is the gift of God's grace, and is implanted on the soul by the Spirit of God in regeneration; yet the Gospel is the means of producing it at first, as well as afterwards encouraging and increasing it; for in it, Christ the foundation of hope is proposed, and set forth before awakened and convinced sinners: the object of this hope is "eternal life"; not anything now seen and enjoyed, for that is not hope; not anything in this present life, but something future; a life of perfect bliss and happiness with Christ to all eternity; which is a hope laid up in heaven, an inheritance reserved there; a life which is secured in the hands of Christ, which he has a power to give, and does give to all his sheep, and is the gift of God through him: and of which it is further said,

which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; eternal life is a "promise", and so of free grace, and not by the works of the law, which is inconsistent with a promise: it is the promise of God, who is faithful to his word, and "can not lie"; being the God of truth, that can neither deceive, nor be deceived: this does not contradict his omnipotence, but argues the perfection of his nature, which cannot admit of anything that implies weakness and mutation: and this promise was made before the world was, as early as the choice of God's elect in Christ, and the gift of grace to them in him; as early as the covenant was made with him, and he was set up as the Mediator of it; who was present to receive this promise as their head and representative for them, and to whom it was made as federally considered in him, and in whom it was secured for them; see 2 Timothy 1:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In hope of eternal life - Margin, for. Greek, ἐπ ̓ ἐλπίδι ep' elpidi. This does not mean that Paul cherished the hope of eternal life, but that the “faith of the elect,” which he aimed to secure, was in order that people might have the hope of eternal life. The whole system which he was appointed to preach was designed to secure to man a well-founded hope of salvation; compare the notes, 2 Timothy 1:10.

Which God, that cannot lie - On the phrase” cannot lie,” see the notes at Hebrews 6:13. The fact that God cannot lie; that it is his nature always to speak the truth; and that no circumstances can ever occur in which He will depart from it, is the foundation of all our hopes of salvation.

Promised - The only hope of salvation is in the promise of God. It is only as we can have evidence that He has assured us that we may be saved, that we are authorized to cherish any hope of salvation. That promise is not made to us as individuals, or by name, but it becomes ours:

(1) Because He has made a general promise that they who repent and believe shall be saved; and,

(2) Because, we may have evidence that we have repented, and do believe the gospel. If this is so, we fairly come under the promise of salvation, and may apply it to ourselves.

Before the world began - That is, the purpose was then formed, and the promise may be considered as in fact then made; - for a purpose in the mind of God, though it is not as yet made known, is equivalent to a promise; compare the Matthew 25:34 note; 2 Timothy 1:9 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Titus 1:2. In hope of eternal life — In expectation of a state of being and well being which should last through eternity, when time should be no more. This includes, not only the salvation of the soul and its eternal beatification, but also the resurrection of the body. This was a point but ill understood, and not very clearly revealed, under the Mosaic law; but it was fully revealed under the Gospel, and the doctrine illustrated by the resurrection and ascension of Christ.

Which God, that cannot lie, promised — We have often seen that the phrase, the foundation of the world, means the Jewish economy, and, before the foundation of the world, the times antecedent to the giving of the law. This is evidently the meaning here. See 2 Timothy 1:9-11.

Supposing the word αιωνιων in this verse to signify eternal, says Dr. Macknight, the literal translation of προ χρονων αιωνιων would be, before eternal times; but that being a contradiction in terms, our translators, contrary to the propriety of the Greek language, have rendered it before the world began, as Mr. Locke observes on Romans 16:25. The true literal translation is before the secular times, referring us to the Jewish jubilees, by which times were computed among the Hebrews, as among the Gentiles they were computed by generations of men. Hence, Colossians 1:26, The mystery which was kept hid απο των αιωνων και απο των γενεων, from the ages and from the generations, signifies the mystery which was kept hid from the Jews and from the Gentiles.