TITUS 1:1 PAUL, A SERVANT OF GOD AND AN APOSTLE OF JESUS CHRIST TO FURTHER THE FAITH OF GOD'S ELECT AND THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH THAT LEADS TO GODLINESS--
TITUS 1:2 IN THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE, WHICH GOD, WHO DOES NOT LIE, PROMISED BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF TIME,
TITUS 1:3 AND WHICH NOW AT HIS APPOINTED SEASON HE HAS BROUGHT TO LIGHT THROUGH THE PREACHING ENTRUSTED TO ME BY THE COMMAND OF GOD OUR SAVIOR,
TITUS 1:4 TO TITUS, MY TRUE SON IN OUR COMMON FAITH: GRACE AND PEACE FROM GOD THE FATHER AND CHRIST JESUS OUR SAVIOR.
TITUS 1:5 THE REASON I LEFT YOU IN CRETE WAS THAT YOU MIGHT PUT IN ORDER WHAT WAS LEFT UNFINISHED AND APPOINT ELDERS IN EVERY TOWN, AS I DIRECTED YOU.
TITUS 1:6 AN ELDER MUST BE BLAMELESS, FAITHFUL TO HIS WIFE, A MAN WHOSE CHILDREN BELIEVE AND ARE NOT OPEN TO THE CHARGE OF BEING WILD AND DISOBEDIENT.
TITUS 1:7 SINCE AN OVERSEER MANAGES GOD'S HOUSEHOLD, HE MUST BE BLAMELESS--NOT OVERBEARING, NOT QUICK-TEMPERED, NOT GIVEN TO DRUNKENNESS, NOT VIOLENT, NOT PURSUING DISHONEST GAIN.
TITUS 1:8 RATHER, HE MUST BE HOSPITABLE, ONE WHO LOVES WHAT IS GOOD, WHO IS SELF-CONTROLLED, UPRIGHT, HOLY AND DISCIPLINED.
TITUS 1:9 HE MUST HOLD FIRMLY TO THE TRUSTWORTHY MESSAGE AS IT HAS BEEN TAUGHT, SO THAT HE CAN ENCOURAGE OTHERS BY SOUND DOCTRINE AND REFUTE THOSE WHO OPPOSE IT.
TITUS 1:10 FOR THERE ARE MANY REBELLIOUS PEOPLE, FULL OF MEANINGLESS TALK AND DECEPTION, ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE CIRCUMCISION GROUP.
TITUS 1:11 THEY MUST BE SILENCED, BECAUSE THEY ARE DISRUPTING WHOLE HOUSEHOLDS BY TEACHING THINGS THEY OUGHT NOT TO TEACH--AND THAT FOR THE SAKE OF DISHONEST GAIN.
TITUS 1:12 ONE OF CRETE'S OWN PR OPHETS HAS SAID IT: 'CRETANS ARE ALWAYS LIARS, EVIL BRUTES, LAZY GLUTTONS.'
TITUS 1:13 THIS SAYING IS TRUE. THEREFORE REBUKE THEM SHARPLY, SO THAT THEY WILL BE SOUND IN THE FAITH
TITUS 1:14 AND WILL PAY NO ATTENTION TO JEWISH MYTHS OR TO THE MERELY HUMAN COMMANDS OF THOSE WHO REJECT THE TRUTH.
TITUS 1:15 TO THE PURE, ALL THINGS ARE PURE, BUT TO THOSE WHO ARE CORRUPTED AND DO NOT BELIEVE, NOTHING IS PURE. IN FACT, BOTH THEIR MINDS AND CONSCIENCES ARE CORRUPTED.
TITUS 1:16 They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.