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1 Paul, 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,
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1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God's elect and the knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness--
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2 upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,
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2 a faith and knowledge resting on the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,
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3 (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,
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3 and at his appointed season he brought his word to light through the preaching entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior,
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4 to Titus -- true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!
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4 To Titus, my true son in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
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5 For 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;
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5 The reason I left you in Crete was that you might straighten out what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.
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6 if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --
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6 An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
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7 for 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;
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7 Since an overseer is entrusted with God's work, he must be blameless--not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain.
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8 but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,
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8 Rather he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.
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9 holding -- 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;
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9 He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.
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10 for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --
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10 For there are many rebellious people, mere talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision group.
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11 whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.
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11 They must be silenced, because they are ruining whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach--and that for the sake of dishonest gain.
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12 A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said -- `Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'
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12 Even one of their own prophets has said, "Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons."
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13 this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
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13 This testimony is true. Therefore, rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith
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14 not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;
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14 and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of those who reject the truth.
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15 all 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;
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15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
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16 God 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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16 They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.
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