Titus 2:13
What does Titus 2:13 mean?
A plain-English look at Titus 2:13 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
What Titus 2:13 means
Believers are to live with their eyes lifted, waiting for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Christian ethics are animated by expectation: Christ will return in glory, and that certainty steadies and purifies us. This verse exalts Jesus, whose coming will display the very glory of God. The hope is “blessed” because it comforts in hardship and assures final vindication. Looking ahead does not detach us from present duties; it fills them with meaning. We endure temptation and labor in good works because the story is heading toward His radiant appearing.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
KJV
King James Version · 1611Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Looking for the blessed hope and coming of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890awaiting the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our greatGod and Saviour Jesus Christ;
Context
After showing how grace teaches us to live now, Paul adds the future horizon. Verse 13 lifts the gaze to Christ’s return, the church’s great hope. This future orientation balances the present-tense obedience of verse 12. Immediately following, verse 14 grounds both present conduct and future hope in Christ’s past work—He gave Himself to redeem and purify a people zealous for good works. Past grace, present training, future glory: together they form the gospel rhythm of Christian living in this chapter.
v.12instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;
v.13This passage
v.14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hebrews 9:28
so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him, unto salvation.
- Colossians 1:5
because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,
- Titus 3:4
But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared,
- 2 Thessalonians 2:16
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
- Matthew 25:31
But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory:
- Matthew 16:27
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then shall he render unto every man according to his deeds.
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