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Renouncing Worldly Pleasures

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We are to renounce worldly pleasures that compete with our godly responsibilities.

Category: Godliness, Holiness & Righteousness

Type: Positive

Form: Implied

Source dataset: New Testament

Uniqueness: Unique

Classical commandment: No

New Covenant Literal Application

Applies to Person Categories: Everyone

Literal Application: mandated

More explanation about New Covenant Literal Application

The New Covenant Literal Application Code (NCLA) is an interpretive guide used by the authors to indicate which person categories a mitzvah applies to, and at what level of literal compliance.

It combines person categories such as Jewish, K'rov Yisrael, and Gentile, together with male/female distinctions and an application level such as mandated, recommended, optional, or prohibited.

This code reflects the authors' interpretive opinion and is provided for prayerful consideration. On this page, the technical code is summarized into plain language to help new readers understand it more easily.

Detailed codes: GFm - Gentile female, mandated | GMm - Gentile male, mandated | JFm - Jewish female, mandated | JMm - Jewish male, mandated | KFm - K'rovat Yisrael female, mandated | KMm - K'rov Yisrael male, mandated

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Bible references

Key NT Scriptures
  • Titus 2:11-12
Supportive NT Scriptures
  • John 2:15-16
  • 1 Timothy 5:6
Supportive OT Scriptures
  • Amos 6:13
  • Ecclesiastes 2:1-2
  • Ecclesiastes 7:4
  • Proverbs 14:13
  • Proverbs 15:23
  • Proverbs 21:17

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Commentary

Rabbi Michael Rudolph

Notice that Titus 2:11-12 speaks of renouncing godlessness and worldly pleasures as being connected. The word “worldly” and the often-used expression “of the world” does not mean all things in the world, but rather those things in the world that are not of God. There have been religious groups that have mistakenly eschewed all pleasure as being ungodly, but that is not the teaching of Scripture (e.g. Neh 8:10 ; Psalms 16:8-9, 11; Isa 3:10 ; Jer 31:6 ; Rom 15:24) . There are also several references to enjoyment and pleasure in Ecclesiastes , but one must be cautious in their interpretation because some are describing error and are therefore not meant to be taken as literal truth.


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