What Does Titus 1:4 Mean in the King James?

To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

Titus 1:4 · KJV

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THE KEY

Shared trust turns this greeting into kinship: Titus is named a child among those whose life comes from the Father and the Deliverer.

THE MEANING

You are addressed as kin within a trust held in common, not as an isolated believer. Favor, mercy, and wholeness come from God the Father and Jesus, your deliverer.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The lie that trust is only a private conviction dissolves here: it is held in common and makes kinship.

THE ROOT

κοινὴν

koinēn

GROWS FROM

κοιν-

koin-

Common, shared, held in common

⁨κοινὴν⁩ (koinēn) means “shared, held in common.” Its word family links commonality with sharing and participation, so the phrase presents trust as shared ground for kinship.

ALSO GROWS

koinōnia: Sharing in common

κοινωνία

The same word family makes the shared nature of the trust explicit.

koinōneō: To share, participate

κοινωνέω

This branch shows commonality as something people enter into together.

πίστιν

pistin

GROWS FROM

πειθ-

peith-

To persuade, bring to trust

“faith” in this verse is pistin. ⁨πίστιν⁩ (pistin) means “trust, reliance,” in the word family of being persuaded and trusting. Joined to “common,” it describes a shared leaning, rather than a private idea held alone.

ALSO GROWS

peithō: Persuade, win confidence

πείθω

This related verb reveals the trust and confidence carried by the word family.

pisteuō: Trust, entrust oneself

πιστεύω

This branch shows faith as reliance placed in someone.

pistos: Firm, steady; trustworthy

πιστός

This branch connects trust with the steadiness that makes it dependable.

σωτῆρος

sōtēros

GROWS FROM

σῴζ-

sōz-

To rescue, deliver, preserve, bring safely through

“Saviour” in this verse is sōtēros. ⁨σωτῆρος⁩ (sōtēros) means “deliverer” and belongs to the word family of rescue and preservation. The greeting’s favor, mercy, and wholeness come from the one whose title names this delivering work.

ALSO GROWS

sōzō: Deliver, rescue, preserve

σῴζω

The verb names the action embodied in the title “Saviour.”

sōtēria: Deliverance

σωτηρία

This noun names the deliverance that flows from the Saviour’s work.

THE PATTERN

Belonging to God makes people kin, and that kinship takes visible form in shared life.

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Malachi 2:10 · KJVThe shared Father and Creator makes people brothers, so kinship carries a claim on how they treat one another.

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:26 · KJVTrust in Christ names people as children of God, echoing the kinship created through shared trust.

And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

Acts 2:44 · KJVBelief held in common becomes a shared life among those who belong together.

THE THREAD

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:26 · KJV

Titus is named a child within the common trust; Galatians names those who trust in Christ as God’s children. The same Greek root, ⁨πίστις⁩ (pistis, trust), underlies “faith” in both, tying trust directly to kinship.

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