Titus Chapter 1 Back Next{1:1} Paul, a servant of God, and an
apostle of
Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to
godliness,
{1:2} in
hope of
eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;
{1:3} but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
{1:4} to Titus, my true child according to a common faith:
Grace, mercy, and peace from God the
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
{1:5} I left you in
Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint
elders in every city, as I directed you;
{1:6} if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
{1:7} For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
{1:8} but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
{1:9} holding to the
faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
{1:10} For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the
circumcision,
{1:11} whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.
{1:12} One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle
gluttons."
{1:13} This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
{1:14} not paying attention to
Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
{1:15} To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their
conscience are defiled.
{1:16} They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
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