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nsb@Titus:1:1 @ 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.

nsb@Titus:1:2 @ It is in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal.

nsb@Titus:1:3 @ In his own time he made his word known through the message that was entrusted to me according to the commandment of God our Savior.

nsb@Titus:1:4 @ To Titus, my true child sharing a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

nsb@Titus:1:5 @ I left you in Crete for this purpose, that you should correct the things that were defective, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave you orders.

nsb@Titus:1:6 @ A blameless man will be the husband of one wife. He will have children that believe and who are not accused of violence and disobedience.

nsb@Titus:1:7 @ The overseer must be blameless as God's steward. He must not be self-willed, not prone to anger, not a brawler, and not violent, not greedy of dishonest gain.

nsb@Titus:1:8 @ but given to hospitality, as a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;

nsb@Titus:1:9 @ holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to reprove those who contradict.

nsb@Titus:1:10 @ There are many unruly men, vain talkers, and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision.

nsb@Titus:1:11 @ They must be stopped. Their mouths must be shut up, for they subvert entire households. They teach things that should not be taught, for the sake of dishonest gain.

nsb@Titus:1:12 @ One of them, a prophet of their own, said: »Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.«

nsb@Titus:1:13 @ This testimony is true. For this cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

nsb@Titus:1:14 @ not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

nsb@Titus:1:15 @ To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure. Both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

nsb@Titus:1:16 @ They profess that they know God; but deny him by their works! They are detestable, disobedient, and not approved for any good work.

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