TITUS 3:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.”
All who are with me send greetings to you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all — the epistolary close uses aspazomai (greet/embrace) language, extending fellowship across distance. Those who love in the faith (tous philountas hēmas en pistei) are believers bonded through shared conviction. The final grace-benediction (charis meta pantōn hymōn) reiterates that grace, not works, remains the foundation and seal of the letter.
Church Fathers on Titus 3:15
That is, either those that love Paul himself, or those men that are faithful. How then do you command him to stop the mouths of gainsayers, if he must pass them by when they are doing everything to their own destruction? He means that he should not do it principally for their advantage, for being once perverted in their minds, they would not profit by it. But if they injured others, it behooved him to withstand and contend with them; and manfully await them, but if you are…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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