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<A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>on hope of continuous life, which God, who does not lie, promised before times of ages <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>(and He revealed His word in [His] own times), in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge 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—true child according to a common faith: Grace, [[kindness,]] peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior!<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For this cause I left you in Crete, that you may arrange the things lacking, and may set elders down in every city, as I appointed to you, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>if anyone is blameless, a husband of one wife, having believing children, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate— <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>for it is required of the overseer to be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleased, nor prone to anger, not given to wine, not an abuser, not given to shameful gain, <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>but a lover of strangers, a lover of [the] good, sober-minded, righteous, holy, self-controlled, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>holding—according to the teaching—to the steadfast word, that he may also be able to exhort in the sound teaching, and to convict the deniers;<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers—especially those of the circumcision— <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>whose mouths must be covered, who overturn whole households, teaching what things it should not, for [the] sake 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 them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans! Always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!” <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>This testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, 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 giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning 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, indeed, [are] pure to the pure, and nothing [is] pure to the defiled and unsteadfast, but even the mind and the conscience of them [is] defiled. <span class="reftext"><a href="/titus/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They profess to know God, but they deny [Him] by their works, being abominable, and disobedient, and disapproved to every good work.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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