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, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to piety,
Titus 1:2 (show verse)
for the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie announced before eternal ages,
Titus 1:3 (show verse)
but manifested his word in the times which were suitable for it by the preaching with which I was intrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God,
Titus 1:4 (show verse)
to Titus my faithful son in the common faith; grace and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.
Titus 1:5 (show verse)
For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might regulate things which are deficient, and appoint elders in every city, as I charged you,
Titus 1:6 (show verse)
if any one is blameless, a husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of intemperance or of insubordination.
Titus 1:7 (show verse)
For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain,
Titus 1:8 (show verse)
but a lover of hospitality, kind, sober, just, holy, self-denying,
Titus 1:9 (show verse)
holding firmly the faithful word taught, that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to convince those who contradict.
Titus 1:10 (show verse)
For there are many disorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
Titus 1:11 (show verse)
whom it is necessary to silence, who mislead whole families, teaching for base gain what they ought not.
Titus 1:12 (show verse)
A certain one of them, their own poet, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gormandizers.
Titus 1:13 (show verse)
This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
Titus 1:14 (show verse)
not attending to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who subvert the truth.
Titus 1:15 (show verse)
To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and conscience are defiled.
Titus 1:16 (show verse)
They profess to know God, but by works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and as to every good work reprobate.