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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_timothy/4.htm" title="2 Timothy 4">◄</a> Titus 1 <a href="../titus/2.htm" title="Titus 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch63001" class="chapter"> <h1 class="bksect">I. <span class="ac">Address</span></h1> <h1 id="cn63001" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span class="hemb">Greeting.<a id="rfn63001001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn63001001-1">*</a></span> <span id="v63001001" class="ver">1</span>Paul, a slave of God and apostle of Jesus Christ for the sake of the faith of God’s chosen ones and the recognition of religious truth,<a id="ren63001001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en63001001-a">a</a> <span id="v63001002" class="ver">2</span>in the hope of eternal life that God, who does not lie, promised before time began,<a id="ren63001002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en63001002-b">b</a> <span id="v63001003" class="ver">3</span>who indeed at the proper time revealed his word in the proclamation with which I was entrusted by the command of God our savior,<a id="ren63001003-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en63001003-c">c</a> <span id="v63001004" class="ver">4</span>to Titus, my true child in our common faith: grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our savior.<a id="ren63001004-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en63001004-d">d</a></p> <h1 class="bksect">II. <span class="ac">Pastoral Charge</span></h1> <p class="paft"><span class="hemb">Titus in Crete.</span> <span id="v63001005" class="ver">5</span><a id="rfn63001005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn63001005-1">*</a>For this reason I left you in Crete so that you might set right what remains to be done and appoint presbyters in every town, as I directed you, <span id="v63001006" class="ver">6</span><a id="ren63001006-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en63001006-e">e</a>on condition that a man be blameless, married only once, with believing children who are not accused of licentiousness or rebellious. <span id="v63001007" class="ver">7</span>For a bishop as God’s steward must be blameless, not arrogant, not irritable, not a drunkard, not aggressive, not greedy for sordid gain, <span id="v63001008" class="ver">8</span>but hospitable, a lover of goodness, temperate, just, holy, and self-controlled, <span id="v63001009" class="ver">9</span>holding fast to the true message as taught so that he will be able both to exhort with sound doctrine and to refute opponents.<a id="ren63001009-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en63001009-f">f</a> <span id="v63001010" class="ver">10</span><a id="rfn63001010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn63001010-1">*</a>For there are also many rebels, idle talkers and deceivers, especially the Jewish Christians.<a id="rfn63001010-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn63001010-2">*</a> <span id="v63001011" class="ver">11</span>It is imperative to silence them, as they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what they should not. <span id="v63001012" class="ver">12</span>One of them, a prophet of their own, once said, “Cretans have always been liars, vicious beasts, and lazy gluttons.”<a id="rfn63001012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn63001012-1">*</a> <span id="v63001013" class="ver">13</span>That testimony is true. Therefore, admonish them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith,<a id="ren63001013-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en63001013-g">g</a> <span id="v63001014" class="ver">14</span>instead of paying attention to Jewish myths and regulations of people who have repudiated the truth.<a id="ren63001014-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en63001014-h">h</a> <span id="v63001015" class="ver">15</span>To the clean all things are clean, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is clean; in fact, both their minds and their consciences are tainted.<a id="ren63001015-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en63001015-i">i</a> <span id="v63001016" class="ver">16</span>They claim to know God, but by their deeds they deny him. They are vile and disobedient and unqualified for any good deed.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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