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Chapter 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 after godliness; |
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In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world
began; |
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But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching,
which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our
Saviour; |
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| To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace,
mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our
Saviour. |
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| 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; |
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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: |
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11 | Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole
houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
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| 12 | One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are
alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. |
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13 | This witness is true.
Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; |
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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. |
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| They profess that they know God; but in works they deny
him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. |
