Titus 1
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1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that [is] according to piety,
2upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,
3(and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,
4to Titus — true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!
5For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;
6if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate —
7for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;
8but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, selfcontrolled,
9holding — according to the teaching — to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;
10for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers — especially they of the circumcision —
11whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.
12A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said — ‘Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!’
13this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
14not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;
15all things, indeed, [are] pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast [is] nothing pure, but of them defiled [are] even the mind and the conscience;
16God they profess to know, and in the works they deny [Him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.
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Titus 1
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Greetings
1Paul, a slave of God and an emissary of Messiah Yeshua, for the faith of God’s chosen and the knowledge of truth that is in keeping with godliness,
2based on the hope of eternal life. God—who cannot lie—promised this before the beginning of time.
3But in His own time He made His message known, through a proclamation with which I was entrusted, by the command of God our Savior.
4To Titus, a true child of our common faith: Grace and shalom from God the Father and Messiah Yeshua, our Savior!
Setting the Community in Order
5The reason I left you in Crete was so that you would set in order the things that remain and appoint elders in every city as I directed you—
6if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children of faith with no charge of wild living or rebellion.
7For the overseer must be blameless as God’s administrator—not arrogant, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain.
8Rather he must be hospitable, loving what is good, self-controlled, upright, devout, disciplined.
9He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message in keeping with the teaching, so he can both encourage by instruction that is sound and convict those who speak against it.
10For there are many who are rebellious, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those from the circumcision.
11They must be silenced—those who upset entire households by teaching what they should not, for the sake of dishonest gain.
12One of them, one of their own prophets, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
13This testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply, so they might be sound in the faith,
14not paying attention to Judaic myths and commands of men who turn away from the truth.
15To the pure all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Both their mind and conscience are defiled.
16They claim to know God but their deeds deny Him. They are despicable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.
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