Titus 1

MSTC^{(i) 1} Paul, the servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to preach the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of that truth, ² which is after godliness upon the hope of eternal life; which life God, that cannot lie, hath promised before the world began: ³ but hath opened his word at the time appointed, through preaching; which preaching is committed unto me, by the commandment of God our saviour. ⁴ To Titus, his natural son in the common faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ our saviour. ⁵ For this cause left I thee in Crete: that thou shouldest perform that which was lacking and shouldest ordain elders in every city as I appointed thee. ⁶ If any be faultless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient. ⁷ For a bishop must be faultless, as it becometh the minister of God; not stubborn, not angry, no drunkard, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre: ⁸ but harborous, one that loveth goodness, sober minded, righteous, holy, temperate, ⁹ and such as cleaveth unto the true word of doctrine, that he may be able to exhort with wholesome learning, and to improve them that say against it. ¹⁰ For there are many disobedient and talkers of vanity, and deceivers of minds, namely they of the circumcision, ¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped, which pervert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, because of filthy lucre. ¹² One being of themselves, which was a poet of their own said, "The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and slow bellies." ¹³ This witness is true, wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, ¹⁴ and not taking heed to Jews fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. ¹⁵ Unto the pure, are all things pure: but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving, is nothing pure: but even the very minds and consciences of them are defiled. ¹⁶ They confess that they know God: but with the deeds they deny him and are abominable, and disobedient, and unto all good works discommendable.