Titus:1:5-16

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ylt @Titus:1:5 @For this cause left I thee in Crete , that the things lacking thou mayest arrange , and mayest set down in every city elders , as I did appoint to thee ; ylt @Titus:1:6 @if any one is blameless , of one wife a husband , having children stedfast , not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate -- ylt @Titus:1:7 @for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless , as God 's steward , not self-pleased , nor irascible , not given to wine , not a striker , not given to filthy lucre ; ylt @Titus:1:8 @but a lover of strangers , a lover of good men , sober-minded , righteous , kind , self-controlled , ylt @Titus:1:9 @holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word , that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching , and the gainsayers to convict ; ylt @Titus:1:10 @for there are many both insubordinate , vain-talkers , and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision -- ylt @Titus:1:11 @whose mouth it behoveth to stop , who whole households do overturn , teaching what things it behoveth not , for filthy lucre 's sake . ylt @Titus:1:12 @A certain one of them , a prophet of their own , said -- 'Cretans ! always liars , evil beasts , lazy bellies !' ylt @Titus:1:13 @this testimony is true ; for which cause convict them sharply , that they may be sound in the faith , ylt @Titus:1:14 @not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men , turning themselves away from the truth ; ylt @Titus:1:15 @all things , indeed , [are ] pure to the pure , and to the defiled and unstedfast [is ] nothing pure , but of them defiled [are ] even the mind and the conscience ; ylt @Titus:1:16 @God they profess to know , and in the works they deny [Him ], being abominable , and disobedient , and unto every good work disapproved .

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