Titus Chapter 1

1Paul 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 according unto godliness.

2Unto the hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie, hath promised before the world began:

3But hath made his word manifest in due time through the preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Savior:

4To Titus my natural son according to the common faith, Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

5For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest continue to redress the things that remain, and shouldest ordain Elders in every city as I ap-pointed thee.

6If any be unreproveable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.

7For a Bishop must be unreproveable, as God’s steward, not froward, not angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre,

8But harberous, one that loveth goodness, wise, righteous, holy, temperate,

9Holding fast that faithful word according to doctrine, that he also may be able to exhort with wholesome doctrine, and convince them that say against it.

10For there are many disobedient and vain talkers and deceivers of minds, chiefly they of the Circumcision,

11Whose mouths must be stopped, which subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

12One of themselves, even one of their own Prophets said, The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

13This witness is true: wherefore convince them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.

14And not taking heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men, that turn away from the truth.

15Unto the pure are all things pure, but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving, is nothing pure, but even their minds and consciences are defiled.

16They profess that they know God, but by works they deny him, and are abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.