What Does Titus 3:10 Mean in the King James?
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
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
Once division persists through repeated warning, refusal becomes the boundary.
THE MEANING
A person keeps drawing a community into factions even after repeated warning. Once that persistence is clear, the response shifts from admonition to refusal.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that patience always requires continued access: when faction-making persists after repeated warning, the verse names a boundary.
THE ROOT
αἱρετικόν
hairetikón
GROWS FROM
αἱρέω
hairéō
to take, seize, or choose
“heretick” in this verse is hairetikón. The word belongs to the Greek family of choosing or taking up a position: αἵρεσις (hairesis) can mean a chosen party or faction, and αἱρετικός (hairetikos) describes someone marked by faction-making. The verse centers on persistent division after warning, rather than simply a person holding an unpopular belief.
ALSO GROWS
hairesis: choice; party, sect, or faction
αἵρεσις
This related noun shows how the language of choosing a position can name the faction that forms around it.
hairetikos: factional; one who promotes division
αἱρετικός
This is the word used for the person whose divisive pattern persists after admonition.
THE PATTERN
When someone persists in dividing a community after correction, the response can move from warning to a boundary.
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.THE THREAD
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.The shared Greek word family, αἱρετικός (hairetikos, factional) in Titus and αἵρεσις (hairesis, faction or sect) here, links the verses directly. Titus describes the person whose faction-making persists after warning, while Corinthians makes the factions within the community visible.
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