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For this cause I left you in Crete ,
that you might set in order the things lacking and appoint elders in every city ,
as I ordered you :
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If anyone is blameless ,
husband of one wife ,
having faithful children ,
not in accusation of loose behavior ,
or disobedient ,
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for the overseer must be blameless as a steward of God ),
not self-pleasing ,
not prone to anger ,
not given to wine ,
not a quarreler ,
not greedy of ill gain ;
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but hospitable ,
a lover of good ,
discreet ,
just ,
holy ,
temperate ,
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clinging to the faithful word according to the teaching ,
that he may be able both to encourage by sound doctrine and to convict the ones contradicting .
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For there are indeed many disobedient men ,
empty talkers and mind-deluders ,
especially those of the circumcision ,
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whose mouth you must stop ,
who overturn whole houses ,
teaching things which they ought not for the sake of ill gain .
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One of them ,
a prophet of their own ,
said :
Cretans are always liars ,
evil beasts ,
lazy gluttons .
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This testimony is true ;
for which cause convict them severely ,
that they may be sound in the faith ,
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not listening to Jewish myths and commandments of men ,
having turned away from the truth .
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Truly ,
all things are pure to the pure ,
but to the ones having been defiled and unbelieving ,
nothing is pure ,
but even their mind and conscience has been defiled .
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They profess to know God ,
but by their works they deny Him ,
being abominable and disobedient ,
and worthless to every good work .