Titus Cross References - Godbey

¹ Paul, the servant of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God, and the perfect knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, ² in the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie, promised before the eternal times, ³ and manifested in his own seasons his word by preaching, with which I am intrusted, according to the commandment of God our Saviour; ⁴ to Titus, my beloved son according to the common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Jesus Christ our Saviour. ⁵ Therefore I left you in Crete, in order that you may set in order remaining things, and establish elders in every city, as I commanded you; ⁶ if any one is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of riot or incorrigible. ⁷ For it behooves the bishop to be blameless, as the steward of God; not audacious, not irascible, not given to wine, not a controvertist, not fond of filthy lucre; ⁸ but hospitable, loving the good, prudent, righteous, holy, temperate; ⁹ holding that which is according to the teaching of the faithful word, in order that he may be able both to exhort with healthy teaching, and to convict the opposers. ¹⁰ For many are incorrigible, speaking vain things and egotistical, especially those from the circumcision, ¹¹ whose mouths it is necessary to stop; who overturn whole families, teaching those things which it does not behoove, for the sake of disgraceful gain. ¹² A certain one of them, their own prophet, said, The Cretans are all liars, evil beasts, slow stomachs. ¹³ This testimony is true: on account of which cause convict them sharply, in order that they may be sound in the faith, ¹⁴ not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men turning away from the truth. ¹⁵ To the pure all things are pure: but to the corrupted and unbelieving there is nothing pure; yea, their mind and their conscience are polluted. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but deny him by their works, being abominable, and unbelieving, and reprobate unto every good work.

⁹ But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

¹⁸ But those things going out from the mouth come forth from the heart; and these pollute the man.

¹³ But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens against the people: for you do not go in, neither do you permit those coming in to enter.

⁴⁵ Then who is the faithful and wise servant, whom the lord placed over his household to give them their food in season?

³⁴ Then the King will say to those on His right, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom which has been prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

⁴⁶ And these shall go away into eternal punishment: and the righteous into eternal life.

⁷ In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

¹⁷ And He traveling along the road, one having run to Him and worshiping Him, asked Him, Good Teacher, what shall I do in order that I may inherit eternal life?

³⁰ except he may receive a hundredfold now in this time, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the coming age eternal life.

¹⁰ And it behooves the gospel first to be preached to all the nations.

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⁵ There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Ahijah, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.

⁴⁷ and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour,

¹¹ because this day a Savior is born unto you, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David.

³⁹ And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees purify the outside of the cup and the plate, but the interior is full of extortion and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Ye fools, did not the One having made the outside also make the inside? ⁴¹ Therefore give alms of your substance; and behold all things are pure unto you.

⁴² The Lord said, Who then is the faithful, wise steward, whom the lord will establish over his house-hold, to give them their food in season?

⁴⁰ And they no longer dared to ask Him anything.

¹⁵ that every one believing in Him may have eternal life. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one believing on Him may not perish but have eternal life.

⁴² and they continued to say to the woman, We no longer believe through your talk; for we have heard and we know that He is truly the Savior of the world.

³⁹ Search the Scriptures, because in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testify concerning me;

⁵⁴ The one eating my flesh and drinking my blood has eternal life; and I will raise him up in the last day.

⁶⁸ Simon Peter responded to Him, Lord, to whom shall we go away? thou hast the words of eternal life;

¹² The hireling, and the one not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees away, and the wolf seizes and scatters them:

²⁶ But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep. ²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: ²⁸ and I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand.

² as thou didst give Him authority over all flesh, in order that whatsoever thou hast given unto Him, He may give unto them eternal life.

²⁴ Father, that which thou hast given unto me, I wish that they may also be with me, where I am, in order that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given unto me: because thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.

¹¹ Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking the mighty works of God in our own languages.

¹⁵ And the voice again the second time came to him, Whatsoever things God has cleansed, do not count unclean;

³⁶ the word which he sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ: he is Lord of all.

² And when Peter went tip to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision interviewed him, say

³⁰ and this they did, sending to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

⁴⁸ And the Gentiles hearing, rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord: and so many as had been ordained unto eternal life believed:

²³ And electing elders for them in every church, praying with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

¹ And certain ones having come down from Judea were teaching the brethren that, Unless you may be circumcised, according to the custom of Moses, you are not able to be saved.

¹⁸ known from the beginning.

²⁴ Since we heard that certain ones having come out from us troubled you, disturbing your souls with words which we did not command:

²⁶ and of (one) man he created every nation of men to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, having determined their predestinated times, and the boundaries of their habitation;

²⁸ For in him we live and move and have our being, as indeed certain ones of your own poets have said, For we are truly his offspring.

²⁸ For he vehemently argued down the Jews, publicly, showing through the scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

²⁹ I know, that after my departure grievous wolves will rise up against you, not sparing the flock;

⁷ And sailing slowly during many days, and were come with difficulty over against Cnidus, the wind not favoring us, we sailed under Crete, opposite Salmone;

¹² And the harbor being unsafe for spending the winter, most of them projected to the council to depart thence, if perchance they might be able, having arrived into Phoenix, to spend the winter there; a harbor of Crete, looking toward the southeast and the northeast.

²¹ And there being much fasting, Paul standing in their midst, said, O men, truly it behooved you obeying me, not to depart from Crete, and incur this injury and loss.

¹ Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, having been separated unto the gospel of God, ² which He proclaimed beforehand through His prophets in the holy scriptures,

⁷ to all the beloved of God who are in Rome, saints having been called. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² but this is the consolation among you through faith in one another, both of you and me.

²⁸ And as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are inappropriate;

⁷ to those indeed who with patience of good work are seeking glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:

¹⁸ and know his will, and approve the things which are excellent, being taught by the law; ¹⁹ and persuade yourself that you are a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness, an instructor of the ignorant, ²⁰ a teacher of the juveniles, having a form of knowledge and truth in the law; ²¹ therefore do not you who teach another teach yourself? do you, who preach not to steal, steal? ²² do you, who say not to commit adultery, commit adultery? do you, who abominate idolatry, rob temples? ²³ do you, who boast in the law, through the transgression of the law dishonor God? ²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed by you among the Gentiles, as has been written.

¹⁹ But we know that so many things as the law speaks, it says to those under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may become guilty before God.

² through whom we also have access by faith unto this grace in which we stand, and let us rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

⁴ and endurance, approval; and approval, hope:

⁶ For we being yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly:

²¹ in order that as sin reigned through death, so may grace reign also through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord,

¹⁴ Then how can they call on him on whom they have not believed? and how can they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? ¹⁵ And how can they preach, unless they may be sent forth? as has been written, How beautiful are the feet of those, who preach the gospel of good things!

¹⁴ I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: except to him who considers it unclean, to him it is unclean.

²⁰ Do not destroy the work of God on account of meat. All things are pure; but it is evil to the man who eats with offence:

²³ but if he may eat doubting, he has been condemned, because it is not of faith; but every thing which is not of faith is sin.

¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem, and around about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;

¹⁷ But I exhort you, brethren, to mark those who cause divisions and stumblings, contrary to the teaching which you have learned, and depart from them. ¹⁸ For such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach; and through fair speeches and eulogies deceive the hearts of the innocent.

¹⁸ For such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach; and through fair speeches and eulogies deceive the hearts of the innocent.

²⁵ To Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery having been hidden during the eternal times, ²⁶ but having now indeed been made manifest, through the prophetical scriptures, and having been made known to all the Gentiles, according to the commandment of the eternal God, unto the obedience of faith;

¹ So let a man consider us, as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. ² Here, moreover, it is required among stewards, that every one must be found faithful.

¹² All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable: all things are lawful, but I will not be brought under the power of any. ¹³ Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats: but God will destroy both this and them. The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

⁷ But there is not knowledge in all people: but some, with the conscience of the idol even until now, eat as if it was sacrificed to the idol; and their conscience being weak is polluted.

¹⁷ For if I do this willingly, I have a reward: but if unwillingly, I have been intrusted with a dispensation.

²³ All things are lawful; but all things are not profitable. All things are lawful; but all things do not edify.

²⁵ Eat everything which is sold in market, asking no questions on account of conscience;

³¹ Then whether you eat, or whether you drink, or what you do, do all things to the glory of God.

²⁷ So whosoever may eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. ²⁸ But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup; ²⁹ for the one eating and drinking, net discerning the body, eats and drinks condemnation to himself.

³⁴ If one is hungry let him eat at home; in order that you may not come together unto condemnation. But I will set in order the remaining things when I may come.

²⁴ But if all may prophesy, and some unbeliever or unlearned person may come in, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all;

⁴⁰ but let all things be done decently and in order.

¹ Paul, the apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God which is at Corinth, along with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

¹³ and I had no rest to my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus: but having bidden them adieu, I came away into Macedonia.

¹³ But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which has been written, I believed, therefore I also spoke; and we believe, therefore we also speak;

⁴ but in everything commending ourselves, as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulations, in straits, in difficulties, ⁵ in stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labors, in vigils, in fastings; ⁶ by purity, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, ⁷ by the word of truth, by the power of God; through the arms of righteousness right and left, ⁸ through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and true;

⁶ But God, the one comforting the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

⁸ But if I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret it, if indeed I did regret it; for I see that, if that letter indeed grieved you for an hour, ⁹ now I rejoice, not because you grieved, but because you grieved unto repentance: for you grieved toward God, in order that you may receive damage by us in nothing. ¹⁰ For a godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world works out death. ¹¹ For behold, how great enthusiasm, yes, how great apology, yes, how great clearing up, yes, how great fear, yes, how great longing, yes, how great zeal, yes, how great avenging, this same godly sorrow did work in you! In everything you have established yourselves to be pure in the matter. ¹² Since then indeed I wrote to you, not on account of the one having done the wrong, nor on account of the one having suffered the wrong, but in order that your zeal, which is in our behalf to you before God, might be made manifest. ¹³ Therefore we have been comforted. But we rejoiced the more exceedingly in our consolation over the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all: ¹⁴ because if I have gloried with him in anything over you, I wag not made ashamed; but as I spoke all things to you in truth, so our rejoicing over Titus was true.

⁶ that we should exhort Titus, that as he formerly began it, he may indeed also complete this grace unto you.

¹⁶ But thanks be unto God, who gives this same enthusiasm in your behalf in the heart of Titus;

²³ Whether in behalf of Titus, my companion and fellow-laborer towards you; or our brethren, the apostles of the churches, the glory of Christ.

¹⁰ The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not cease unto me in the regions of Achaia.

¹² But what I am doing, I indeed will do, in order that I may cut off occasion from those wishing occasion, in order that in whatsoever they may glory, they may be found even as we are. ¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. ¹⁵ Then it is no great wonder if his ministers are transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose, end shall be according to their works.

¹⁸ I called Titus, and sent the brother along with him: whether did Titus defraud you? did we not walk by the same Spirit? did we not in the same tracks?

¹⁰ Therefore being absent I write these things, in order that being present, I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.

⁶ I am astonished that you are so quickly removed from him who called you in the grace of Christ into another gospel; ⁷ which is not another: but there are certain ones who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the gospel of Christ. ⁸ But indeed if we, or an angel from heaven, may preach unto you any other gospel except that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

³ But neither was Titus the one with me, being a Greek, compelled to be circumcised: ⁴ but on account of the false brethren having crept in, who came in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they shall bring us into bondage:

¹ O foolish Galatians, who has been bewitching you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was set forth having been crucified?

⁴ but when the fulness of time came, God sent forth his own Son, having been born of a woman, having been born under law,

⁹ but now having known God, and rather having become known of God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements which you wish to serve again as formerly?

¹⁷ They zealously seek you in no good way; but they wish to exclude you, in order that you may zealously seek them. ¹⁸ It is good always to be zealous in a good thing, and not only in my coming to you. ¹⁹ My children, for whom I again travail in pain until Christ may be formed in you, ²⁰ but I wish to come unto you now, and change my voice; because I am at a loss in reference to you. ²¹ Tell me, you wish to be under law, do you not hear the law?

¹ Christ has set you free with freedom, Therefore stand, and be not again entangled with the yoke of bondage. ² Behold I Paul say unto you, that, if you may be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. ³ And again I witness to every man who is circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law. ⁴ You have been divorced from Christ, whosoever are justified by law: you have fallen from grace.

² Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ in the economy of the fulness of the times, to rehead all things in Christ, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth; in him,

⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

¹⁷ And having come he preached the gospel of peace to you, who were far away, and peace to them who were nigh:

⁵ which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets through the Spirit; ⁶ that the Gentiles are to be fellow-heirs, and the same body, and partakers of the promise of Christ Jesus through the gospel, ⁷ whose minister I became, according to the gift of the grace of God which was given unto me; according to the working of his power. ⁸ To me, the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

¹⁴ in order that we may be no longer infants, tossed by the waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, in the caprice of the people, in their craftiness, pursuant to their method of delusion;

⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words: for through these the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.

¹⁸ Be not drunk with wine, in which there is riot, but be ye filled with the Spirit;

¹ Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.

¹³ So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the pretorian army, and to all the rest;

² Beware of dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the counterfeit circumcision. ³ For we are the circumcision, who serve the Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, also having no confidence in the flesh:

² to the saints who are in Colossae and the faithful brethren in Christ. Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

⁶ having come to you, as it is indeed in the whole world bearing fruit and increasing, as also among you, from the day on which you heard and have known the grace of God in truth;

²³ if you abide in the faith, having been grounded and firm, and not moved from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, having been preached in all creation which is under heaven; whose minister I Paul became.

²⁷ to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, who is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

² in order that their hearts may be comforted, being knitted together in divine love, and in all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, unto the perfect knowledge of the mystery of God, of Christ,

⁵ For if I am absent in the flesh, but I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the establishment of your faith toward Christ.

²² those things which are all unto destruction by use according to the commandments and teachings of the people?

⁴ but as we were approved of God that the gospel should be intrusted unto us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who is proving our hearts,

¹⁰ You are witnesses, and God, how sacredly and righteously and blamelessly we were unto you who believed:

¹⁵ who even killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us, and are displeasing to God, and hostile to all men;

⁸ but let us, who are of the day, be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and divine love; and the helmet, the hope of salvation:

¹⁴ And we, exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the small-souled people, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.

²¹ but prove all things; and hold fast to the beautiful;

¹⁰ and in all the deception of unrighteousness to those who perish; because they did not receive the divine love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And on this account God sends to them the working of delusion, that they should believe a lie: ¹² in order that they may all be condemned who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in unrighteousness. ¹³ But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning unto salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth; ¹⁴ unto which He also called you through our gospel, unto the possession of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁵ Then therefore, brethren, stand, and hold fast the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or by our epistle:

¹ Paul, the apostle of Jesus according to the commandment of God our Saviour, and Jesus Christ our hope;

¹ Paul, the apostle of Jesus according to the commandment of God our Saviour, and Jesus Christ our hope; ² to Timothy, my beloved son in the faith. Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. ³ As I exhorted you to remain in Ephesus, I going into Macedonia, in order that you may command certain ones not to teach heterodoxy, ⁴ nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which present questions, rather than the economy of God which is in faith:

⁴ nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which present questions, rather than the economy of God which is in faith:

⁴ nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which present questions, rather than the economy of God which is in faith: ⁵ but the end of the commandment is divine love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and faith free from hypocrisy:

⁵ but the end of the commandment is divine love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and faith free from hypocrisy: ⁶ from which certain ones having deflected have gone out into empty talking,

⁶ from which certain ones having deflected have gone out into empty talking, ⁷ wishing to be teachers of the law, not knowing either what they are saying, or concerning what things they do affirm.

⁹ knowing this, that the law is not made for the righteous, but for the unrighteous and disorderly, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and the profane, for patricides, matricides and homocides, ¹⁰ for fornicators, for Sodomites, for kidnapers, for liars, for perjurers, and if any thing else is opposed to healthy teaching; ¹¹ according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I am intrusted.

¹⁵ It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief:

¹⁹ having faith and a good conscience; which some having cast away have made shipwreck concerning the faith;

³ This is beautiful and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; ⁴ who wishes all men to be saved, and to come to the perfect knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For there is one God, and there is also one mediator of God and men, the man, Christ Jesus, ⁶ the one having given himself a ransom for all, a testimony in due time; ⁷ in which I have been placed a herald and an apostle I speak the truth, I lie not, a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and in truth.

¹ It is a faithful saying, If any one desires the episcopacy, he covets a beautiful work. ² Therefore it behooves the bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, modest, prudent, orderly, hospitable, competent to teach,

² Therefore it behooves the bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, modest, prudent, orderly, hospitable, competent to teach,

² Therefore it behooves the bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, modest, prudent, orderly, hospitable, competent to teach, ³ not given to wine, not a controvertist; but gentle, peaceable, not a money lover;

³ not given to wine, not a controvertist; but gentle, peaceable, not a money lover; ⁴ ruling his own house beautifully; having children in subordination with all gravity;

⁴ ruling his own house beautifully; having children in subordination with all gravity; ⁵ but if any one does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?

⁵ but if any one does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God? ⁶ not a novice, lest being puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the devil.

⁶ not a novice, lest being puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the devil. ⁷ But it also behooves him indeed to have a beautiful testimony from the aliens, in order that he may not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

⁷ But it also behooves him indeed to have a beautiful testimony from the aliens, in order that he may not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. ⁸ Likewise let the deacons be grave, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not fond of filthy lucre; ⁹ having the testimony of faith in a pure conscience. ¹⁰ And let them also first be proven; then let them minister the office of deacon, being irreproachable. ¹¹ Likewise let their wives be grave, not tattlers, modest, faithful in all things. ¹² Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses beautifully.

¹² Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses beautifully. ¹³ For those having ministered the office of a deacon beautifully procure to themselves beautiful progress, and much boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ And assuredly great is the mystery of godliness; Who is manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, was seen of angels, was preached among the Gentiles, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.

² speaking lies in hypocrisy, having been cauterized as to their own conscience, ³ forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing the truth. ⁴ Because every creature of God is good, and nothing rejected, being received with thanksgiving:

⁶ Submitting these things to the brethren, you will be a beautiful minister of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of faith, and the beautiful teaching which you have followed;

⁹ This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation. ¹⁰ For unto this we toil and agonize, because we have hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

¹² Let no one look with contempt upon your youth; but be you an example of the faithful, in word, in deportment, in divine love, in faith, in purity.

⁸ But if any one provides not for his own, and especially those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

²⁰ Convict those who sin before all, in order that the rest may also have fear.

³ If any one teaches another doctrine, and does not give heed to the sound words which belonged to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

³ If any one teaches another doctrine, and does not give heed to the sound words which belonged to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; ⁴ he has been inflated, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and controversies, from which come envy, strife, blasphemies, evil surmisings, ⁵ wranglings of men having been corrupted as to their mind and turned away from the truth, considering that gain is godliness.

⁵ wranglings of men having been corrupted as to their mind and turned away from the truth, considering that gain is godliness.

¹¹ But you, O man of God, fly from these things; and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, divine love, patience, meekness. ¹² Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, into which you have been called, and witnessed a beautiful testimony before many witnesses.

¹⁹ laying up for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold on the life which is life indeed.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the commandment of life which is in Christ Jesus, ² to Timothy, my beloved child. Grace, mercy, peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁹ the one having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the eternal times, ¹⁰ but now having been made manifest through the appearing of Jesus Christ our Saviour, the one having indeed destroyed death, and lighted up life and immortality through the gospel, ¹¹ unto which I have been placed a herald, and an apostle, and teacher:

¹³ Hold fast the form of sound words which you heard with me, in the faith and divine love which is in Christ Jesus:

² and whatsoever things thou hast heard with me through many witnesses, commit thou the same to faithful men, who will be able also to teach others.

¹⁰ On account of this I endure all things for the sake of the elect, in order that they may also have the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

¹³ if we are unfaithful, he remains faithful; for he is not able to deny himself.

¹⁵ Study to present yourself to God approved, a workman not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

²² But fly from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, divine love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a clean heart. ²³ But reject foolish and undisciplinary questions, knowing that they gender strife. ²⁴ But it does not behoove the servant of the Lord to strive, but to be gentle toward all, competent to teach, enduring evil, ²⁵ in meekness correcting the adversaries; if peradventure God may grant unto them repentance into the perfect knowledge of the truth,

²⁵ in meekness correcting the adversaries; if peradventure God may grant unto them repentance into the perfect knowledge of the truth,

³ without natural affections, covenant breakers, devilish, intemperate, furious, opposed to good,

⁵ having a form of godliness, but denying the power of the same: and from these turn away. ⁶ For of these are those creeping into houses, and leading captive little, silly women laden with sins, being led by divers lusts,

⁶ For of these are those creeping into houses, and leading captive little, silly women laden with sins, being led by divers lusts, ⁷ always learning, and never able to come into the perfect knowledge of the truth. ⁸ In the manner in which Jannes and Jambres also resisted Moses, so these indeed resist the truth; men who are corrupt as to their mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

¹³ But wicked men and seducers will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

² preach the word: be instant in season and out of season; convict, exhort, rebuke, with all longsuffering and teaching. ³ For the time will come when they will not endure healthy teaching; but according to their own lusts they will heap to themselves teachers itching as to their hearing; ⁴ and they will indeed turn their hearing from the truth, and be turned unto fables.

³ and manifested in his own seasons his word by preaching, with which I am intrusted, according to the commandment of God our Saviour;

⁵ Therefore I left you in Crete, in order that you may set in order remaining things, and establish elders in every city, as I commanded you; ⁶ if any one is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of riot or incorrigible. ⁷ For it behooves the bishop to be blameless, as the steward of God; not audacious, not irascible, not given to wine, not a controvertist, not fond of filthy lucre;

⁷ For it behooves the bishop to be blameless, as the steward of God; not audacious, not irascible, not given to wine, not a controvertist, not fond of filthy lucre; ⁸ but hospitable, loving the good, prudent, righteous, holy, temperate; ⁹ holding that which is according to the teaching of the faithful word, in order that he may be able both to exhort with healthy teaching, and to convict the opposers. ¹⁰ For many are incorrigible, speaking vain things and egotistical, especially those from the circumcision, ¹¹ whose mouths it is necessary to stop; who overturn whole families, teaching those things which it does not behoove, for the sake of disgraceful gain.

¹ But speak you those things which become healthy teaching. ² That the elderly men be sober, grave, prudent, sound in faith, in divine love, in patience: ³ likewise that the elderly women be reverent in demeanor, not tattlers, not given to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

⁷ concerning all things exhibiting yourself an example of good works; in teaching; purity, gravity,

⁷ concerning all things exhibiting yourself an example of good works; in teaching; purity, gravity, ⁸ the sound word, irrefutable, in order that the adversary may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning us.

¹⁰ not purloining, but exhibiting all good faith, that they may adorn the teaching of God our Saviour in all things. ¹¹ For the grace of God, that brings salvation to all men, has appeared, ¹² teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we must live prudently and righteously and holily in this present age; ¹³ looking for the blessed hope even the appearing of the glory of our great God and our Saviour Christ Jesus;

¹⁵ Speak these things and exhort and convict with all authority; let no one despise thee.

⁴ but when the goodness and philanthropy of God our Saviour appeared, ⁵ not from works which are in righteousness, which we did, but according to his own mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewal of the Holy Ghost, ⁶ whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour; ⁷ in order that, being justified by his faith, we may be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

¹⁰ Reject a heretical man after the first and second admonition;

¹⁷ but God, in this wishing more abundantly to show forth to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: ¹⁸ that through two immutable things in which it was impossible that God should lie, we who have fled may have a strong consolation to lay hold of the hope set before us,

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered up himself without spot to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

²² let us draw nigh with a true heart in a full assurance of faith, having been sprinkled as to our hearts from an evil conscience,

²⁵ See that you do not reject the one speaking: for if they escape not having rejected the one delivering them the divine oracles on earth, how much more shall we not escape, who turn away from the one speaking from the heavens:

¹⁹ Know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow toward wrath: ²⁰ for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.

²⁶ But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain.

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one having according to his great mercy begotten us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and never fading, having been kept in the heavens unto you,

²⁰ foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but having been made manifest at the last of the times for the sake of you, ²¹ who through him are faithful toward God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope are toward God. ²² Having purified your souls through obedience of the truth unto unhypocritical, brotherly love, fervently from the heart love one another with divine love: ²³ having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, through the word of God, who lives and abides.

¹⁰ as each one received the gift of grace, ministering the same to one another, as the good stewards of the manifold grace of God:

² shepherdize the flock of God which is among you, not coercively, but willingly, for the sake of God; not for filthy lucre, but cheerfully.

¹ Simon Peter, the servant of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those receiving like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

³ As His divine power having given unto us all things which appertain to life and godliness, through the perfect knowledge of the one having called us to his own glory and virtue:

¹¹ For in this way an entrance will be administered unto you abundantly into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

¹ However there were indeed false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among you, whosoever shall bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

¹ However there were indeed false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among you, whosoever shall bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow their impurities; through whom the way of truth will be slandered:

² And many will follow their impurities; through whom the way of truth will be slandered: ³ and in their covetousness they will sell you with their soft speeches: unto whom judgment from olden time tarries not, and their destruction does not slumber.

¹⁰ and especially those going after the flesh in the lust of pollution, and despising lordship. Audacious darers, blaspheming, they do not tremble at glories;

¹² But these, like irrational animals having been born naturally for capture and destruction, blaspheming those things in which they are ignorant; in their own corruption they will indeed corrupt themselves;

¹⁵ leaving the straight way, they have wandered off, following in the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of iniquity; and had the conviction of his own conscience:

²⁰ For if having escaped the pollutions of the world through the perfect knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and having again become entangled in these things, they are overcome, the last state has to them become worse than the first.

²² It has happened unto them according to the old proverb, The dog having returned to his own vomit; and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

² to remember the words which have been spoken hitherto by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Saviour by your apostles:

¹¹ Then all these things being dissolved, what kind of people does it behoove you to be in holy deportment and godliness,

¹⁸ but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of the age.

⁴ The one saying, I have known him, and keeping not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, from which we know that it is the last hour.

²³ No one denying the Son has the Father: the one confessing the Son has also the Father.

²⁵ This is the message which he proclaimed unto you, eternal life.

² Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he may be made manifest, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is. ³ Indeed every one having this hope on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of the death into the life, because we love the brethren with divine love; the one loving not with divine love, abides in the death.

¹ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits if they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

¹ Every one believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God: and every one loving with divine love him who begat, also loves him who has been begotten of him, with divine love.

¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God has given unto us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² The one having the Son has the life; the one not having the Son of God has not the life. ¹³ I have written these things unto you, in order that you may know that you have eternal life; to those who believe on the name of the Son of God. ¹⁴ And this is the assurance which we have toward him, that, if we may ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

²⁰ But we know that the Son of God has come and has given unto us intelligence, that we know the truth. And we are in the true one, in his Son Jesus Christ; he is the true God, and eternal life.

³ Beloved, making all haste to write to you concerning our common salvation, I had need to write to you, exhorting you to agonize for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. ⁴ For certain men have crept in, who long ago were written down to this judgment, ungodly, transforming the grace of God into impurity, even denying Jesus Christ, our only Sovereign and Lord.

⁸ Likewise indeed these dreamers also pollute the flesh, and reject lordship, and blaspheme glories. ⁹ But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed over the body of Moses, did not dare to bring against him a judgment of blasphemy, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. ¹⁰ But these blaspheme so many things as they know not: and so many things as they understand naturally, like irrational animals, in these they are corrupted. ¹¹ Woe unto them! because they have gone off in the way of Cain, and in the delusion of Balaam they have been seduced by reward, and they perished in the gainsaying of Korah. ¹² These are rocks in your love-feasts, feasting along with you without fear shepherdizing themselves, clouds without water, driven away by the winds; withered trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; ¹³ wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own disgraces; wandering stars, for which the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

²¹ keep yourselves in the divine love of God, receiving the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

⁶ But you have this, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there those holding the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the sons of Israel, and to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

²⁵ Moreover hold fast that which you have, until I shall come.

³ Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If you do not watch, I will come as a thief, and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you.

¹¹ I am coming quickly: hold fast that which you have, that no one may take your crown.

⁸ And all those who dwell upon the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world, will worship him.

¹⁶ And the one sitting on the cloud thrust in his sickle to the earth; and the earth was reaped.

⁸ The beast which you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and go into perdition: and those dwelling upon the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be astonished, seeing the beast, because he was, and is not, and will be.

⁸ But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and the murderers, and the fornicators, and the sorcerers, and the idolaters, and all liars, shall be their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

²⁷ And nothing unclean, and the one doing abomination, and falsehood, can at all enter into it: none except those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.