I left you behind in Crete expressly to correct what defects there were, and to appoint elders in each town, as I directed you??6 men of irreproachable character, who have been married only once, whose children are Christians, free from any suspicion of profligacy or disobedience.

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Have nothing to do with the profitless doings of the darkness; expose them instead.

For anyone who bids him good morning shares in his wicked work.

Then I heard another voice from heaven say, "Come out of her, my people, so that you may not share in her sins, and suffer from her plagues.

Keep

Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set those who believe an example in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.

But as they contradicted and abused him, he shook his clothes in protest, and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not to blame for it! After this I will go to the heathen."

Therefore I declare to you today that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you,

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Therefore have nothing to do with them.