but hath manifested in his own appointed season his word by the preaching, with which I have been entrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God;

but the stranger's host, the good man's friend, grave, just, holy, temperate;

One of them, a poet of their own nation, hath said, The Cretans are always liars, wicked beasts, slothful gluttons.

All things indeed are clean to the clean: but to the defiled and to the unbelievers there is nothing clean; but their very mind and conscience are defiled.

They profess to know God; but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

BUT speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

not embezzling their property, but demonstrating all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

But even then the kindness and love of God our Saviour to man shone forth,

not for works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the laver of regeneration, and by renovation of the Holy Spirit;

But foolish disquisitions, and genealogies, and disputes, and contentions about the law avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.