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ἀκατάγνωστος
Akatagoostos
Adjective
Beyond reproach; above condemnation

Definition

The Greek adjective akatagoostos (ἀκατάγνωστος) combines the alpha-privative with kataginosko (to find fault, condemn). It means beyond reproach, above condemnation, or not able to be condemned.

Usage & Theological Significance

Akatagoostos appears only once in the New Testament — Titus 2:8 — in Paul's instructions to Titus about teaching sound doctrine: 'In your teaching show integrity, seriousness, and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned (akatagoooston), so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.' The Christian life is to be lived at such a moral and rhetorical level that critics are silenced by its integrity. This is the apologetic power of holy living.

Key Bible Verses

Titus 2:7-8
In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned (akatagoooston), so that those who oppose you may be ashamed.
1 Peter 2:12
Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
1 Timothy 3:2
Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach.
Philippians 2:15
So that you may become blameless and pure, 'children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.'
2 Corinthians 8:21
For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of man.

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