Where the Argument Collapses
The sentence starts at verse 14, not verse 15. Paul names the danger first, and he names it as fables of men and commandments of men.
Reading verse 15 by itself removes the only thing that tells the reader what it is about.
The Claim
Paul says unto the pure all things are pure. If all things are pure to a believer, then nothing is off the table, and a man who still separates creatures has an unclean mind.
The Verses
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
— Titus 1:14–15
What Verse Fourteen Names
Two things are named, and both come from men.
Fables. Stories that were being circulated as though they carried authority.
Commandments of men. Rules that were being taught as though Yahuah had given them.
Neither describes Torah. A commandment of men is by definition not a commandment of Yahuah, and Paul says these commandments turn a man from the truth.
So verse 15 answers a problem created by men. It is not a ruling on what Yahuah wrote.
The Word Pure
The word is katharos. It means clean.
Paul is saying that to a clean man, things are clean. To a defiled man, nothing is clean — and he says why. Their mind and conscience are defiled.
The problem he is describing sits in the man, not in the creature. A man with a corrupted conscience sees corruption everywhere. Adding rules does not fix him, because the trouble was never in the things he was ruling on.
All Things Cannot Be Unlimited
Test the phrase without limits and watch what it does.
If all things are pure to a pure man, then all things are pure. Theft. Idolatry. Adultery. Nobody holds that, and Paul does not either — he spends the next chapter telling Titus what behaviour to require.
So all things is bounded by whatever Paul was discussing. Verse 14 says what he was discussing.
This is the same construction that appears elsewhere. All things are lawful unto me, Paul writes in First Corinthians 6:12, and then immediately limits it twice in the same sentence. Broad phrases in these letters carry the limits of their argument.
What Was Being Taught on Crete
Titus was left on Crete, and Paul describes the trouble there in the verses just before.
Men of the circumcision were teaching things they ought not, for money (verses 10 and 11). Their teaching is called fables and commandments of men.
That is a group adding to the written word, not a group keeping it. The charge is invention, and Paul answers invention.
Whatever these men were requiring, a purity that had to be manufactured by extra rules is what Paul denies. He does not deny the definition of food that Yahuah already gave.
The Sentence Runs the Other Way
Notice which half of verse 15 carries the weight.
Unto the pure all things are pure. That half gets quoted.
But unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure. That half is the point of the sentence. Paul is describing the teachers, not the menu.
His subject is what a corrupt conscience does to a man’s sight. He ends the thought in verse 16 by saying they profess to know Yahuah but in works deny Him.
That is a rebuke of teachers. It is not a food list.
The Verdict
Titus 1:15 sits inside a warning about men who taught fables and commandments of their own making.
Paul says purity is a matter of the man, and that a defiled conscience finds nothing clean no matter what rules it adds.
The passage never mentions Leviticus 11, never names a creature, and never claims to change what Yahuah called food.
Foundations Cited
F-10 Common Is Not Unclean · F-09 Commandments of Yahuah, Traditions of Men