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Titus 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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2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
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3 But has in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;
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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.
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5 For this cause left I you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you:
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6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
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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;
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8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
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9 Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the disputers.
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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 always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
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13 This witness is true. Why rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
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14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
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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.
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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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