Titus:1:5-16

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* For this cause I left thee in Crete , that thou mightest go on to set right what remained [unordered ], and establish elders in each city , as I had ordered thee : * if any one be free from all charge [against him ], husband of one wife , having believing children not accused of excess or unruly . * For the overseer must be free from all charge [against him ] as God 's steward ; not headstrong , not passionate , not disorderly through wine , not a striker , not seeking gain by base means ; * but hospitable , a lover of goodness , discreet , just , pious , temperate , * clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught , that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers . * For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people 's minds , specially those of [the ] circumcision , * who must have their mouths stopped , who subvert whole houses , teaching things which ought not [to be taught ] for the sake of base gain . * One of themselves , a prophet of their own , has said , Cretans are always liars , evil wild beasts , lazy gluttons . * This testimony is true ; for which cause rebuke them severely , that they may be sound in the faith , * not turning [their ] minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth . * All things [are ] pure to the pure ; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing [is ] pure ; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled . * They profess to know God , but in works deny [him ], being abominable , and disobedient , and found worthless as to every good work .

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