What Does Titus 1:6 Mean?
If anyone is unaccused, the husband of one wife, having steady children not accused of wild living and not set under.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.THE KEY
The verse locates a leader’s trustworthiness in the steadiness of the relationships closest to them.
THE MEANING
This verse describes a life that withstands accusation, remains faithful in marriage, and is joined to children described as steady and trustworthy rather than reckless or insubordinate. Where you carry responsibility, public credibility and the life closest to you belong together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A respected role cannot make a disorderly private life trustworthy.
THE ROOT
πιστά
pista
GROWS FROM
πείθω
peithō
to persuade, be persuaded, or trust
The children are called πιστά, a form of πιστός: steady, dependable, trustworthy. Its word family also includes πίστις, trust; the Greek carries the firmness others can rely on, a depth that sits within the English word “faithful.”
ALSO GROWS
pistos: steady, dependable, trustworthy
πιστός
This is the word family’s description of the children: their character is reliable.
pistis: trust, confidence, faith
πίστις
Trust names the relation made possible by steadiness: others can lean on what proves reliable.
THE PATTERN
Trustworthy leadership becomes visible through integrity in close relationships and in the way a person treats those in their care.
The aligned one walks in his wholeness; flourishing are his children after him.One who stands well before his own house, having his children held in order beneath him, with all weight.Nor as those pressing down upon the portions, but becoming imprints for the flock.THE THREAD
The one who is steady in the least is steady also in much, and the one who is crooked in the least is crooked also in much.Titus uses πιστά for the children; Luke uses πιστός for the person reliable in the least thing. Both belong to the πείθω word family, connecting steadiness with the trust others can place in a person.
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