TITUS 3:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 3
“And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.”
And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of genuine need, and not be unfruitful — the final charge generalizes: hoi hēmetroi (our people) should practice good works (erga kala) not as individual virtue but as community provision for genuine necessity. The negation — mē einai akarpi — emphasizes productivity: a Christian community that doesn't generate good works is sterile, failing its fruitful calling. This echoes John 15 and Matthew 12:33.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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