Titus 1:4 (YLT)

Passage

to Titus--true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

Nearby Context

Titus 1:2 upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

Titus 1:3 (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

Titus 1:4 to Titus--true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

Titus 1:5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

Titus 1:6 if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "grace", "faith", "titus--true", "child", "common", "kindness", "peace", and "father". It is saying that salvation is received as God's gift through faith, so boasting is pushed out by the wording itself.

The nearby context moves from verse 3's "and He manifested in proper times His..." into verse 5's "For this cause left I thee in...", so "grace" and "faith" belong inside that flow. In Titus context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "grace" and "faith" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.