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title: Titus 1
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createdAt: 2024-09-11T02:21:12.804Z
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**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 after godliness; **2 **In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; **3 **But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;

**4 **To Titus, *mine* own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, *and* peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

**5 **For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: **6 **If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. **7 **For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; **8 **But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; **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.

**10 **For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: **11 **Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. **12 **One of themselves, *even* a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians *are* alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. **13 **This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; **14 **Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. **15 **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. **16 **They profess that they know God; but in works they deny *him*, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.