Titus Chapter 3 verse 7 Holy Bible
that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.
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that, having been justified by *his* grace, we should become heirs according to [the] hope of eternal life.
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That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.
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Titus 3 : 7 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Might for should, A.V. Being justified by his grace; showing very clearly that righteousness in man did not precede and cause the saving mercy of God, but that mercy went before and provided the justification which is altogether of grace, and which issues in the possession of eternal life. Heirs according to the hope of eternal life. This seems to be the right rendering rather than that in the margin, heirs, according to hope, of eternal life, making "eternal life" depend upon "heirs." The passage in Titus 1:2, "In hope of eternal life," is a very strong reason for taking the same construction here. The answer in the Church Catechism, "Wherein I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven," follows very closely St. Paul's teaching in the text (see Romans 4:13, 14; Romans 8:17; Galatians 3:29, 4:7).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.--Here appears the glorious design of God's salvation. We were in a hopeless and lost state, from which God's love for man saved us by the laver of regeneration and renovation; and this was the end for which He saved us--that we should be heirs of eternal life. "Being justified," that is, freed from the future punishment and consequences of sin, and received into the favour and friendship of God, which favour and friendship had been, through sin, forfeited. "By His grace," by the favour and kindness of God the Father are we restored to His love and friendship. "Heirs," see Romans 8:17, where this thought of our heirship of heaven is enlarged. "According to the hope of eternal life;" this life eternal is still for us in the future, though ever present in respect of hope; children of God we indeed are, and sharers in many a good gift of our Father, but eternal life, that glorious inheritance, is still in the far future, and as yet can only be enjoyed by us in hope, but it is a sure hope--eternal life--the hope of which is the mainspring of all Christian work and activity--though it includes it, of course, is something far more than merely endless existence. A veil, impenetrable to mortal eye, hangs between us and the many mansions of the Father's house. "It doth not yet appear what we shall be;" we only know that then, we, in company with an innumerable host of blessed beings, shall share in the beatific vision; we only know that then "we shall ever be with the Lord;" and that with this thought and with these words are we to comfort one another. (See 1Thessalonians 4:17-18.)
