Titus 1:2-12 (King James Version)
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Ina hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
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But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
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To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
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For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting ,b and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
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If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
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For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
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But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men,c sober, just, holy, temperate;
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Holding fast the faithful word asd he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers .
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For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
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Whose mouths must be stopped , who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
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One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said , The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
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