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Titus 3
Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation
1 Admonish them to be subject to princes and powers, to obey at a word, to be ready to every good work. Fathers
2 To speak evil of no man, not to be litigious but gentle: shewing all mildness towards all men.
3 For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.
4 But when the goodness and kindness of God our Saviour appeared:
5 Not by the works of justice which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us, by the laver of regeneration and renovation of the Holy Ghost. CCC
6 Whom he hath poured forth upon us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour: CCC
7 That, being justified by his grace, we may be heirs according to hope of life everlasting. CCC
8 It is a faithful saying. And these things I will have thee affirm constantly, that they who believe in God may be careful to excel in good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
9 But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain.
10 A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid: Fathers
11 Knowing that he that is such an one is subverted and sinneth, being condemned by his own judgment.
12 When I shall send to thee Artemas or Tychicus, make haste to come unto me to Nicopolis. For there I have determined to winter.
13 Send forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollo, with care that nothing be wanting to them.
14 And let our men also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses: that they be not unfruitful.
15 All that are with me salute thee. Salute them that love us in the faith. The grace of God be with you all. Amen.
This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church
Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text.
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“Ye never grudged any act of kindness, being "ready to every good work.”
Quoted in First Letter to the Corinthians, St. Clement of Rome (c. AD 96), Chapter II. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 1215 “This sacrament is also called "the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit," for it signifies and actually brings about…”
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- CCC 1817 “Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust…”
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- CCC 1817 “Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust…”
Read the Fathers
“… their disciples had against holding even verbal communication with any corrupters of the truth; as Paul also says, "A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter III. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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