What Does Titus 3:11 Mean?
Seeing that such a one is turned inside out and misses the mark, judged by himself.
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
Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.THE KEY
A person turned off course keeps missing, and that same course bears the verdict against them.
THE MEANING
The person who keeps breaking shared life is already turned aside in direction, and keeps missing the mark. Their own course becomes testimony to what it has become.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This verse undoes the belief that judgment must come from outside: a person’s own course can already expose and judge the turn.
THE ROOT
ἐξέστραπται
exestraptai
GROWS FROM
στρέφω
strephō
Turn, twist, or change direction.
“turned inside out” in this verse is exestraptai. The Greek says the person has been turned aside. The image is not just a label for bad behavior: it describes a direction that keeps carrying the person away from the way.
ALSO GROWS
epistrephō: Turn back, return.
ἐπιστρέφω
Its shared στρέφω root makes return the other side of being turned aside.
apostrephō: Turn away, reject.
ἀποστρέφω
This branch shows how a change of direction can also be a turning away from what is true.
ἁμαρτάνει
hamartanei
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτάνω
hamartanō
Miss, fail, or go astray.
“misses the mark” in this verse is hamartanei. The verb describes an ongoing missing, joined here to the person’s turned direction. English can make “sin” sound like a category; this word pictures a course that keeps missing its mark.
ALSO GROWS
hamartia: Missing, error, sin.
ἁμαρτία
The noun names the miss that the verb here describes as continuing.
hamartōlos: One who misses; a sinner.
ἁμαρτωλός
This related word names a person by the pattern of missing, linking conduct with the direction described in the verse.
αὐτοκατάκριτος
autokatakritos
GROWS FROM
κρίνω
krinō
Judge, decide, or distinguish.
“judged by himself” in this verse is autokatakritos. The compound joins “self” with “condemned”: the judgment is carried within the person’s own course. The verse presents the person’s actions as their own testimony.
ALSO GROWS
katakrinō: Condemn, judge against.
κατακρίνω
This compound uses the same judgment root to name condemnation directly.
krisis: Judgment, decision.
κρίσις
This branch shows the judgment sense held within the word for being condemned.
THE PATTERN
A direction repeatedly held becomes visible in its fruit and carries its own judgment.
There is a way straight before a man, but its latter end is the ways of death.Therefore you have no word to answer with, O human, whoever you are who judges others, for in whatever you judge in another you press the sentence down upon yourself, for you who judge practice the very same things.Then craving, when it has conceived, gives birth to falling short; and falling short, when it is full-grown, bears death.THE THREAD
Therefore you have no word to answer with, O human, whoever you are who judges others, for in whatever you judge in another you press the sentence down upon yourself, for you who judge practice the very same things.Titus calls the person αὐτοκατάκριτος (autokatakritos), “self-condemned”; Romans says κατακρίνεις σεαυτόν (katakrineis seauton), “thou condemnest thyself.” Both draw on κρίνω (krinō), the root of judging, making explicit how a person’s own course carries its verdict.
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