Thematic Bible
Titus 1:1 (show verse)
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ (according to the faith of God's elect, in the acknowledging of the truth which is according to godliness
Titus 1:2 (show verse)
on hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the eternal times,
Titus 1:3 (show verse)
but revealed His Word in its own times in a proclamation, with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior,)
Titus 1:4 (show verse)
to Titus, a true child according to our common faith. Grace mercy and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
Titus 1:5 (show verse)
For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you,
Titus 1:6 (show verse)
if anyone is blameless, husband of one wife, having believing children, not accused of loose behavior, or disobedient.
Titus 1:7 (show verse)
For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not full of passion, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain;
Titus 1:8 (show verse)
but hospitable, a lover of good, discreet, just, holy, temperate,
Titus 1:9 (show verse)
holding fast the faithful Word according to the doctrine, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict the gainsayers.
Titus 1:10 (show verse)
For there are indeed many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
Titus 1:11 (show verse)
whose mouth you must stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things not right for the sake of ill gain.
Titus 1:12 (show verse)
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.
Titus 1:13 (show verse)
This witness is true; for which cause convict them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith,
Titus 1:14 (show verse)
not giving heed to Jewish myths and commandments of men, turning away from the truth.
Titus 1:15 (show verse)
To the pure all things are pure. But to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Titus 1:16 (show verse)
They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient and reprobate to every good work.