Titus opens with the hope of eternal life promised by the God who cannot lie and returns in 3:7 to believers becoming heirs according to that same hope, forming a deliberate book-level frame.

Numbers says God is not a man that he should lie; Titus grounds eternal-life hope in “God, that cannot lie.” The link is theological rather than a formal quotation, but the shared emphasis on God’s inability to lie makes the character correspondence unusually strong.

Hebrews says it is impossible for God to lie; Titus calls him the “unlying” God who promised eternal life. The approved evidence supports this relationship while preserving the distinction between direct quotation, canonical development, and thematic correspondence.

2 Timothy and Titus both place God’s saving purpose before the ages and describe its later manifestation in the gospel proclamation. The approved evidence supports this relationship while preserving the difference between direct quotation, canonical development, and interpretive inference.

2 Timothy opens with “the promise of life” in Christ, while Titus opens with “hope of eternal life” promised by the God who cannot lie before the ages; together the Pastorals frame ministry by God’s prior life-giving promise.