What Does Titus 2:10 Mean in the King James?
Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The doctrine is adorned when trust becomes visible in the way what is entrusted is handled.
THE MEANING
The teaching of the God who delivers takes visible shape in how you handle what is entrusted to you. Here trust is more than a claim: it becomes something another person can lean on, giving the teaching its beauty in every part of life.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the idea that a message about God can remain beautiful while its bearer quietly diverts what others have entrusted to them.
THE ROOT
πίστιν
pistin
GROWS FROM
πειθ-
peith-
Persuade, win trust, or be persuaded.
“Fidelity” can sound like loyalty as an abstract quality, but this word-family carries trust and reliance. Here that trust is visible as steadiness: someone can lean their full weight on what you show them.
ALSO GROWS
pisteuō: Trust, believe
πιστεύω
The verb for trusting links reliance to the trustworthiness shown in a person’s actions.
pistos: Firm, steady; trustworthy
πιστός
This branch names what can bear another’s trust, bringing the inward act of trust into visible conduct.
κοσμῶσιν
kosmōsin
GROWS FROM
κοσμ-
kosm-
Arrange, order, or put in fitting form.
“Adorn” can sound like adding decoration, but this word also carries the sense of arranging something in order. The teaching’s beauty becomes legible through the shape of everyday conduct.
ALSO GROWS
kosmos: Order, arrangement; the world
κόσμος
The shared word-family joins fitting arrangement with the ordered world, deepening the image of teaching made visible in a coherent life.
kosmios: Orderly, well-arranged, respectable
κόσμιος
This related word describes conduct whose order makes the teaching recognizable.
σωτῆρος
sōtēros
GROWS FROM
σωζ-
sōz-
Deliver, bring out of danger, or make safe.
“Saviour” in this verse is sōtēros. The title names God as the deliverer. The teaching being adorned therefore carries the character of deliverance, made visible through the trustworthiness described in the verse.
ALSO GROWS
sōzō: Deliver, bring out
σῴζω
This verb gives the title its active sense: God is the one who brings out.
sōtēria: Deliverance
σωτηρία
The related noun names the deliverance that the teaching carries and the conduct makes visible.
THE PATTERN
The teaching becomes visible when the conduct of the people carrying it makes its wisdom and goodness recognizable.
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.THE THREAD
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,The word rendered “fidelity” here belongs to the same Greek word-family rendered “faith” in Galatians 5:22. The link shows trust not as an invisible idea alone, but as steadiness that becomes visible in a life.
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