Titus 1:5-2:1 (Epistle)
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- For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you –
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- if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination.
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- For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,
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- but hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled,
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- holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.
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- For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
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- whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.
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- One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
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- This testimony is true. Therefore 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 who turn from the truth.
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- To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.
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- They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.
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- But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: