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Titus 1:1: Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that is according to piety, Titus 1:2: upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages, Titus 1:3: (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour, Titus 1:4: to Titus &#8212; true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour! Titus 1:5: For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee; Titus 1:6: if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate &#8212; Titus 1:7: for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre; Titus 1:8: but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled, Titus 1:9: holding &#8212; according to the teaching &#8212; to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict; Titus 1:10: for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers &#8212; especially they of the circumcision &#8212; Titus 1:11: whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake. Titus 1:12: A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said &#8212; 'Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!' Titus 1:13: this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, Titus 1:14: not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth; Titus 1:15: all things, indeed, are pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast is nothing pure, but of them defiled are even the mind and the conscience; Titus 1:16: God they profess to know, and in the works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.
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