What Does Titus 2:7 Mean in the King James?
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
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 verse’s “pattern” is an impression stamped by lived good, so teaching becomes visible in the shape it leaves.
THE MEANING
The teaching you carry takes visible shape in your life: good works leave an impression others can recognize. Its credibility rests in sincerity that remains unspoiled.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This unsettles the belief that sound teaching can stand apart from the life that carries it.
THE ROOT
τύπος
typos
GROWS FROM
τυπ- (from τύπτω, typtō)
To strike or impress; the mark left by impact.
Greek τύπος (typos) means a mark, impression, or model, and comes from τύπτω (typtō), “to strike.” The “pattern” is not an abstract ideal: good works leave a formed impression, making teaching visible in a life.
ALSO GROWS
typtō: To strike or beat.
τύπτω
It names the impact behind the impression: a pattern takes shape through what is enacted.
typikos: Typical, serving as a type or example.
τυπικός
This related form keeps the sense of a visible model that gives another person a shape to recognize.
ἀφθαρσία
aphtharsia
GROWS FROM
φθείρω (phtheirō), with the stem φθαρ-
To corrupt, spoil, or bring to decay; the word here names what is free from that corruption.
The word rendered “sincerity” is ἀφθαρσία (aphtharsia), the quality of being uncorrupted or imperishable. Its root makes sincerity more than an appearance: the teaching remains unspoiled rather than being bent or ruined.
ALSO GROWS
phthora: Corruption, decay, or ruin.
φθορά
It names the deterioration that sincerity is free from.
phtheirō: To corrupt, spoil, or destroy.
φθείρω
This is the root action the verse’s “sincerity” holds at bay.
aphthartos: Incorruptible, imperishable.
ἄφθαρτος
This related form shows the same root’s positive sense: what remains untouched by decay.
THE PATTERN
What is received as a pattern becomes visible in its form and conduct.
And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.THE THREAD
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.Titus calls a life a τύπος (typos), a stamped example; Timothy is told to become that same kind of example, with the pattern spelled out across speech, conduct, love, spirit, trust, and purity. That link makes Titus’s “pattern of good works” concrete: the form is a whole life visible in its details.
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