1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of
the truth which is according to godliness;
1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised
before the world began;
1:3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching,
which is committed to me according to the commandment of God
our Savior;
1:4 To Titus, [my] own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy,
[and] peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our
Savior.
1:5 For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldst set
in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in
every city, as I had appointed thee:
1:6 If any is blameless, the husband of one wife, having
faithful children, not accused of riot, or disorderly.
1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not
self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not
given to filthy lucre;
1:8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober,
just, holy, temperate;
1:9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that
he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince
the gainsayers.
1:10 For there are many disorderly and vain talkers and
deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses,
teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of sordid
gain.
1:12 One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said, The
Cretians [are] always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
1:13 This testimony is true: wherefore rebuke them sharply, that
they may be sound in the faith;
1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men
that turn from the truth.
1:15 To the pure all things [are] pure: but to them that are
defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their mind
and conscience is defiled.
1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny
[him], being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good
work reprobate.
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