Titus:1:5-16

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* Of this cause I left thee in Crete so that the things wanting thou mightest rectify , and thou mightest constitute in each city elders , as I to thee have orders ; * if any one is irreproachable , of one wife a husband , children having believing , not under an accusation of profligacy , or of insubordination . * It behooves for the overseer irreproachable to be , as of God a steward ; not self –indulgent , not passionate , not a wine drinker , not a striker , not eager for base gains , * but a friend to strangers , a friend to goodness , prudent , just , holy , self –governed , * holding fast of the according to the teaching true word , so that able he may be both to exhort by the teaching by that sound and those speaking against to confute . * Are for many and unruly ones , foolish talkers and deceivers , especially those of circumcision , * whom it is necessary to muzzle ; who whole houses overturn , teaching the things not proper , of base gain of account . * Said one from of them own of them a prophet ; Cretans always liars , evil wild beasts , gluttons idle . * The testimony this is true ; for which cause reprove them severely , so that they may be sound in the faith , * not holding to Jewish fables , and commandments of men turning away from the truth . Titus * All things indeed pure to the pure ones ; to those but having been defiled and unfaithful ones nothing pure , but has been defiled of them both the mind and the conscience . * God they profess to have known , by the but works they deny , abominable ones being and disobedient ones , and as to every work good worthless ones .

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