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4 To Titus, my true child in the faith we share: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
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To Titus, my true son in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
5 I left you in Crete so you could finish doing the things that still needed to be done and so you could appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.
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The reason I left you in Crete was that you might put in order what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.
6 An elder must not be guilty of doing wrong, must have only one wife, and must have believing children. They must not be known as children who are wild and do not cooperate.
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An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
7 As God's manager, an elder must not be guilty of doing wrong, being selfish, or becoming angry quickly. He must not drink too much wine, like to fight, or try to get rich by cheating others.
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Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain.
8 An elder must be ready to welcome guests, love what is good, be wise, live right, and be holy and self-controlled.
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Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.
9 By holding on to the trustworthy word just as we teach it, an elder can help people by using true teaching, and he can show those who are against the true teaching that they are wrong.
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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.
10 There are many people who refuse to cooperate, who talk about worthless things and lead others into the wrong way -- mainly those who say all who are not Jews must be circumcised.
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For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group.
11 These people must be stopped, because they are upsetting whole families by teaching things they should not teach, which they do to get rich by cheating people.
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They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain.
12 Even one of their own prophets said, "Cretans are always liars, evil animals, and lazy people who do nothing but eat."
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One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”
13 The words that prophet said are true. So firmly tell those people they are wrong so they may become strong in the faith,
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This saying is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith
14 not accepting Jewish false stories and the commands of people who reject the truth.
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and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth.
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