Titus 3:10

Revised Standard Version

As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him,

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Give a warning to all those who cause arguments. If they continue to cause trouble after a second warning, then don't associate with them.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
A ma that is geue to heresie after the fyrst and the seconde admonicion avoyde

Hebrew Names Version
Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;

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

New Century Version
After a first and second warning, avoid someone who causes arguments.

Update Bible Version
A factious man after a first and second admonition refuse;

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

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,

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
An heretic after a first and second admonition reject,

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Eschewe thou a man eretik, aftir oon and the secound correccioun;

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

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

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

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],

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

Bible in Basic English
A man whose opinions are not those of the church, after a first and second protest, is to be kept out of your society;

Complete Jewish Bible
Warn a divisive person once, then a second time; and after that, have nothing more to do with him.

Darby Translation
An heretical man after a first and second admonition have done with,

International Standard Version
Have nothing to do with a person who causes divisions after you have warned him once or twice.Matthew 18:17; Romans 16:17; 2 Corinthians 13:2; 2 Thessalonians 3:6,14; 2 Timothy 3:5; 2 John 1:1:10;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
From an heretical man, after one time and twice thou hast admonished him, withdraw;

Murdock Translation
An heretical man, after thou hast instructed him once and again, avoid:

King James Version (1611)
A man that is an heretike, after the first and second admonition, reiect:

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.

New Life Bible
Talk once or twice to a person who tries to divide people into groups against each other. If he does not stop, have nothing to do with him.

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Reiect him that is an heretike, after once or twise admonition,

George Lamsa Translation
After you have admonished the heretic once or twice shun him;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
From a party-man, after a first and second admonition, excuse thyself;

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

Bishop's Bible (1568)
A man that is an aucthour of sectes, after the first and the seconde admonition, auoyde:

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

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

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

Lexham English Bible
Reject a divisive person after a first and second admonition,

Literal Translation
After the first and second warning, avoid a man of heresy,

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A ma that is geuen vnto heresye, after ye first and seconde monicion, auoyde,

Mace New Testament (1729)
A man that is an heretick, after the first and second admonition, avoid:

THE MESSAGE
He Put Our Lives Together Remind the people to respect the government and be law-abiding, always ready to lend a helping hand. No insults, no fights. God's people should be bighearted and courteous. It wasn't so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and stubborn, dupes of sin, ordered every which way by our glands, going around with a chip on our shoulder, hated and hating back. But when God, our kind and loving Savior God, stepped in, he saved us from all that. It was all his doing; we had nothing to do with it. He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit. Our Savior Jesus poured out new life so generously. God's gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. And there's more life to come—an eternity of life! You can count on this. I want you to put your foot down. Take a firm stand on these matters so that those who have put their trust in God will concentrate on the essentials that are good for everyone. Stay away from mindless, pointless quarreling over genealogies and fine print in the law code. That gets you nowhere. Warn a quarrelsome person once or twice, but then be done with him. It's obvious that such a person is out of line, rebellious against God. By persisting in divisiveness he cuts himself off. As soon as I send either Artemas or Tychicus to you, come immediately and meet me in Nicopolis. I've decided to spend the winter there. Give Zenas the lawyer and Apollos a hearty send-off. Take good care of them. Our people have to learn to be diligent in their work so that all necessities are met (especially among the needy) and they don't end up with nothing to show for their lives. All here want to be remembered to you. Say hello to our friends in the faith. Grace to all of you.

New English Translation
Reject a divisive person after one or two warnings.

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

Simplified Cowboy Version
If someone starts causing trouble, warn them a couple of times. Everyone gets caught up sometimes and makes a mistake. But if they continue, show them their walking papers, and have nothing to do with them.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Reject a factious man after a first and second warning,

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

Contextual Overview

⁹ But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile. ¹⁰ As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him, ¹¹ knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned. ¹² When I send Artemas or Tych'icus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicop'olis, for I have decided to spend the winter there. ¹³ Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apol'los on their way; see that they lack nothing. ¹⁴ And let our people learn to apply themselves to good deeds, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not to be unfruitful. ¹⁵ All who are with me send greetings to you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

heretic: 1 Corinthians 11:19, Galatians 5:20, 2 Peter 2:1

after: Matthew 18:15-17, 2 Corinthians 13:2

reject: Romans 16:17, 1 Corinthians 5:4-13, Galatians 5:12, 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 2 Thessalonians 3:14, 2 Timothy 3:5, 2 John 1:10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 14:40 - take away Numbers 5:3 - without Acts 24:14 - heresy Galatians 1:8 - though 2 Thessalonians 3:15 - admonish Titus 1:11 - mouths

Cross-References

Genesis 2:25
And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.

Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.

Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

Genesis 3:18
thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Exodus 3:6
And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

Exodus 32:25
And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, to their shame among their enemies),

Job 23:15
Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.

Psalms 119:120
My flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments.

Isaiah 33:14
The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: "Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?"

Isaiah 47:3
Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A man that is an heretic,.... An heretic, according to the notation of the word, is either one that makes choice of an opinion upon his own judgment, contrary to the generally received sense of the churches of Christ, and prefers it to theirs, and obstinately persists in it; separates from them, forms a party, and sets himself at the head of them, whom he has drawn into the same way of thinking with himself: or he is one that removes and takes away a fundamental doctrine of Christianity, which affects particularly the doctrine of the Trinity, the deity, and personality of Father, Son, and Spirit, and especially the doctrines relating to the person, office, and grace of Christ; one that brings in, or receives damnable doctrines; speaks or professes perverse things, and draws away disciples after him; or is among such disciples: for though schism and heresy do differ, and every schismatic may not be an heretic, yet every heretic is a schismatic; he makes a rent in the doctrine of Christ, and makes parties and divisions in his church; and such are not always to be contended and disputed with, but to be avoided and rejected:

after the first and second admonition reject; have nothing to do with him; have no society with him; admit him not to private conversation; and eject him from church communion, after he has been publicly admonished twice by the order of the church; for this is not to be understood of private admonition, by a particular person or persons; as in the case of private offences, Matthew 18:15 but of public admonition, in the name of the church. An admonition with the Jews did not continue less than seven days a; some say b thirty; that is, there were so many days before it was out, or between one and another.

a T. Bab. Moed Katon, fol. 16. 1. b Bereshit Rabba, sect. 33. fol. 28. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A man that is an heretic - The word “heretic” is now commonly applied to one who holds some fundamental error of doctrine, “a person who holds and teaches opinions repugnant to the established faith, or that which is made the standard of orthodoxy.” Webster. The Greek word here used αἱρετικὸς hairetikos occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. The corresponding noun (αἵρεσις hairesis) occurs in the following places: Acts 5:17; Acts 15:5; Acts 24:5; Acts 26:5; Acts 28:22, where it is rendered “sect;” and Act 25:14; 1 Corinthians 11:19; Galatians 5:20; 2 Peter 2:1, where it is rendered “heresy,” and “heresies;” see the notes at Acts 24:14. The true notion of the word is that of one who is a promoter of a sect or party. The man who makes divisions in a church, instead of aiming to promote unity, is the one who is intended. Such a man may form sects and parties on some points of doctrine on which be differs from others, or on some custom, religious rite, or special practice; he may make some unimportant matter a ground of distinction from his brethren, and may refuse to have fellowship with them, and endeavor to get up a new organization. Such a man, according to the Scripture usage, is a heretic, and not merely one who holds a different doctrine from that which is regarded as orthodoxy. The spirit of the doctrine here is the same as in Romans 16:17, and the same class of persons is referred to. “Mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have received; and avoid them.” See the notes at that passage. The word here used is defined by Robinson (Lexicon), “one who creates dissensions, introduces errors, a factious person.” It is not found in classic Greek, but often in ecclesiastical writers; see Suicer’s Thesaurus.

After the first and second admonition - Compare Matthew 18:15-17. That is, do not do it hastily and rashly. Give him an opportunity to explain himself, and to repent and abandon his course. No man is to be cut off without giving him a proper opportunity to vindicate his conduct, and to repent if he has done wrong. If after the first and second admonition a man who is undoubtedly doing wrong, will not repent, then he is to be cut off. The apostle does not say in what way this admonition is to be given, or whether it should be public or private. The language which he uses would justify either, and the method which is to be adopted is doubtless to be determined by circumstances. The thing which is to be reached is, that his fault is to be fairly set before his mind.

Reject - παραιτοῦ paraitou. This word is rendered “excuse” in Luke 14:18-19; “refuse,” Acts 25:11; 1 Timothy 4:7; 1 Timothy 5:11; Hebrews 12:25; “avoid,” 2 Timothy 2:23, and “entreated,” Hebrews 12:19. Its prevailing meaning, as used in connections like the one before us, is to reject in relation to an office; that is, to decline appointing one to an office. It probably had a primary reference to that here, and meant that a man who was given to making dissensions, or who was a factious person, should not be admitted to an office in the church. The general direction would also include this, - that he should not be admitted to the church. He is neither to be owned as a member, nor admitted to office; compare Matthew 18:17. “Let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican.” In regard to this passage, then, we may observe:

(1) That the utmost limit which this allows is mere exclusion. It does not allow us to follow the offender with injury.

(2) It does not authorize us to oppose one on account of his mere private opinions. The essential idea is that of a factious, division-making man; a man who aims to form sects and parties, whether on account of opinions, or from any other cause.

(3) It does not make it right to deliver such a man over to the “secular arm,” or to harm him in body, soul, property, or reputation. It gives no power to torture him on the rack, or with thumb-screws, or to bind him to the stake. It authorizes us not to recognize him as a Christian brother, or to admit him to an office in the church - but beyond this it gives us no right to go. He has a right to his own opinion still, as far as we are concerned, and we are not to molest him in the enjoyment of that right.

(4) It demands that, when a man is undoubtedly a heretic in the sense here explained, there should be the utmost kindness towards him, in order if possible to reclaim him. We should not begin by attacking and denouncing his opinions; or by formally arraigning him; or by blazoning his name as a heretic; but he is to be dealt with in all Christian kindness and brotherly fidelity. He is to be admonished more than once by those who have the right to admonish him; and then, and then only, if he does not repent, he is to be simply avoided. That is to be an end of the matter so far as we are concerned. The power of the church there ceases. It has no power to deliver him over to anyone else for persecution or punishment, or in any way to meddle with him. He may live where he pleases; pursue his own plans; entertain his own opinions or company, provided he does not interfere with us; and though we have a right to examine the opinions which he may entertain, yet our work with him is done. If these plain principles had been observed, what scenes of bloody and cruel persecution in the church would have been avoided!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 10. A man that is a heretic — Generally defined, one that is obstinately attached to an opinion contrary to the peace and comfort of society, and will neither submit to Scripture nor reason. Here it means a person who maintains Judaism in opposition to Christianity, or who insists on the necessity of circumcision, c., in order to be saved. This is obviously the meaning of the word heretic in the only place in which it occurs in the sacred writings.

After the first and second admonition, reject — Labour to convince him of his error but if he will not receive instruction, if he have shut his heart against conviction, then - burn him alive? No: even if demonstrably a heretic in any one sense of that word, and a disturber of the peace of the Church, God gives no man any other authority over him but to shun him, παραιτου. Do him no harm in body, soul, character, or substance; hold no communion with him; but leave him to God. See the notes on Acts 5:17; Acts 24:14, where the word heresy is particularly explained.