Titus 1:15
“Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →To those who are pure, everything is pure; but to the corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, for their very minds and consciences are defiled.
What Does Titus 1:15 Mean?
Against the false teachers' fixation on ritual rules about clean and unclean things, Paul states a deeper principle. Purity is finally a matter of the heart. To those made pure, all of God's gifts can be received as clean; but to the corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is truly pure, because the defilement lies within their own minds and consciences.
The point cuts to the source. External rules cannot cleanse a heart that is itself unclean, and a clean heart is not defiled by what it touches. Sin is not mainly a problem of contact with the wrong things but of corruption within. For the reader, this drives us toward Christ, who alone can make the heart pure. Where the inner life is cleansed by Him, the whole world becomes a place of received goodness rather than anxious avoidance.