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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Titus 1 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/titus/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/titus/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</a> > Titus 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" 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">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/titus/1-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Paul’s Greeting to Titus<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_corinthians/8.htm#16">2 Corinthians 8:16–24</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Paul, a servant of God and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in accord with the faith of God’s elect and in acknowledgment of the truth which is accompanied by piety, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>in the hope of the eternal life that God, who does not lie, promised before the ages of time, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>which, at the proper time, he has manifested by his Word, in the preaching that has been entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior;<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>to Titus, beloved son according to the common faith. Grace and peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Savior.<p> <A name="6"></a><p class="hdg">Appointing Elders on Crete<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_timothy/3.htm">1 Timothy 3:1–7</a>; <a href ="../1_peter/5.htm">1 Peter 5:1–4</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For this reason, I left you behind in Crete: so that those things which are lacking, you would correct, and so that you would ordain, throughout the communities, priests, (just as I also ordained you) <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>if such a man is without offense, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of self-indulgence, nor of insubordination. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And a bishop, as a steward of God, must be without offense: not arrogant, not short-tempered, not a drunkard, not violent, not desiring tainted profit, <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>but instead: hospitable, kind, sober, just, holy, chaste, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>embracing faithful speech which is in agreement with doctrine, so that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to argue against those who contradict.<p> <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Correcting False Teachers<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_timothy/1.htm#3">1 Timothy 1:3–11</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For there are, indeed, many who are disobedient, who speak empty words, and who deceive, especially those who are of the circumcision. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>These must be reproved, for they subvert entire houses, teaching things which should not be taught, for the favor of shameful gain. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>A certain one of these, a prophet of their own kind, said: “The Cretans are ever liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>This testimony is true. Because of this, rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>not paying attention to Jewish fables, nor to the rules of men who have turned themselves away from the truth. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>All things are clean to those who are clean. But to those who are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean; for both their mind and their conscience have been polluted. <span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They claim that they know God. 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