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 chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
Titus 1:2 (show verse)
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;
Titus 1:3 (show verse)
but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
Titus 1:4 (show verse)
to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
Titus 1:5 (show verse)
I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;
Titus 1:6 (show verse)
if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
Titus 1:7 (show verse)
For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
Titus 1:8 (show verse)
but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
Titus 1:9 (show verse)
holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
Titus 1:10 (show verse)
For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
Titus 1:11 (show verse)
whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.
Titus 1:12 (show verse)
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons."
Titus 1:13 (show verse)
This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
Titus 1:14 (show verse)
not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn 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 both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
Titus 1:16 (show verse)
They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.