Titus 1

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¹Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness, ✦ ²in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began. ✦ ³In His own time He has made His word evident in the proclamation entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior. ✦ ⁴To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. ✦ ⁵The reason I left you in Crete was that you would set in order what was unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you. ✦ ⁶An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination. ✦ ⁷As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-absorbed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money. ✦ ⁸Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. ✦ ⁹He must hold firmly to the faithful word as it was taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who contradict it. ✦ ¹⁰For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision, ✦ ¹¹who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not. ✦ ¹²As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” ✦ ¹³This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith ✦ ¹⁴and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth. ✦ ¹⁵To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled. ✦ ¹⁶They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

1 Tim 1 ·12 Titus 2 ·11 2 Tim 2 ·10 1 Tim 6 ·8 2 Pet 2 ·7 Titus 1 ·7 1 Tim 4 ·6 Rom 1 ·5

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