Titus:1:5-16

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* For this cause left I thee in Crete , that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting , and ordain elders in every city , as I had appointed thee : * If any be blameless , the husband of one wife , having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly . * For a bishop must be blameless , as the steward of God ; not selfwilled , not soon angry , not given to wine , no striker , not given to filthy lucre ; * But a lover of hospitality , a lover of good men , sober , just , holy , temperate ; * Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught , that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers . * For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers , specially they of the circumcision : * Whose mouths must be stopped , who subvert whole houses , teaching things which they ought not , for filthy lucre 's sake . * One of themselves , even a prophet of their own , said , The Cretians are alway liars , evil beasts , slow bellies . * This witness is true . Wherefore rebuke them sharply , that they may be sound in the faith ; * Not giving heed to Jewish fables , and commandments of men , that turn from the truth . * Unto the pure all things are pure : but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure ; but even their mind and conscience is defiled . * They profess that they know God ; but in works they deny him , being abominable , and disobedient , and unto every good work reprobate .

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