Titus Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹ From Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, charged to strengthen the faith of God's Chosen People, and their knowledge of that Truth which makes for godliness, . ² and is based on the hope of Immortal Life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began, ³ and has revealed at his own time in his Message, with the proclamation of which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior. ⁴ To Titus, my true Child in our one Faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Savior, bless you and give you peace. ⁵ My reason for leaving you in Crete was that you might put in order what had been left unsettled, and appoint Officers of the Church in the various towns, as I myself directed you. ⁶ They are to be men of irreproachable character, who are faithful husbands, whose children are Christians and have never been charged with dissolute conduct or have been unruly. ⁷ For a Presiding-Officer, as God's steward, ought to be a man of irreproachable character; not self-willed or quick-tempered, nor addicted to drink or to brawling or to questionable money-making. ⁸ On the contrary, he should be hospitable, eager for the right discreet, upright, a man of holy life and capable of self-restraint, ⁹ who holds doctrine that can be relied on as being in accordance with the accepted Teaching; so that he may be able to encourage others by sound teaching, as well as to refute our opponents. ¹⁰ There are, indeed, many unruly persons--great talkers who deceive themselves, principally converts from Judaism, ¹¹ whose mouths ought to be stopped; for they upset whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, merely to make questionable gains. ¹² It was a Cretan--one of their own teachers--who said: 'Cretans are always liars, base brutes, and gluttonous idlers'; and his statement is true. ¹³ Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the Faith, ¹⁴ and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs upon the Truth. ¹⁵ Everything is pure to the pure-minded, but to those whose minds are polluted and who are unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are alike polluted. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown him. They are degraded and self-willed; and, as far as anything good is concerned, they are utterly worthless.

⁹ But vainly do they worship me, For they teach but the precepts of men.'"

¹⁸ But the things that come out from the mouth proceed from the heart, and it is these that defile a man;

¹³ But alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You turn the key of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces. For you do not go in yourselves, nor yet allow those who try to go in to do so.

⁴⁵ Who, then is that trustworthy, careful servant, who has been placed by his master over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

³⁴ Then the King will say to those on his right 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, enter upon possession of the Kingdom prepared for you ever since the beginning of the world.

⁴⁶ And these last will go away 'into aeonian punishment,' but the righteous 'into aeonian life.'"

⁷ But vainly do they worship me, For they teach but the precepts of men.'

¹⁷ And, as Jesus was resuming his journey, a man came running up to him, and threw himself on his knees before him. "Good Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to gain Immortal Life?"

³⁰ Who will not receive a hundred times as much, even now in the present--houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land--though not without persecutions, and, in the age that is coming, Immortal Life.

¹⁰ But the Good News must first be proclaimed to every nation.

¹⁵ Then he said to them: "Go into all the world, and proclaim the Good News to all creation.

⁵ In the reign of Herod, King of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the Division called after Abijah. His wife, whose name was Elizabeth, was also a descendant of Aaron.

⁴⁷ My spirit delights in God my Savior;

¹¹ This day there has been born to you, in the town of David, a Savior, who is Christ and Lord.

³⁹ But the Master said to him: "You Pharisees do, it is true, clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside you yourselves are filled with greed and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Fools! did not the maker of the outside make the inside too? ⁴¹ Only give away what is in them in charity, and at once you have the whole clean.

⁴² "Who, then," replied the Master, "is that trustworthy steward, the careful man, who will be placed by his master over his establishment, to give them their rations at the proper time?

⁴⁰ For they did not venture to question him any further.

¹⁵ That every one who believes in him may have Immortal Life." ¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that every one who believes in him may not be lost, but have Immortal Life.

⁴² And they said to the woman: "It is no longer because of what you say that we believe in him, for we have heard him ourselves and know that he really is the Savior of the world."

³⁹ You search the Scriptures, because you think that you find in them Immortal Life;

⁵⁴ He who takes my flesh for his food, and drinks my blood, has Immortal Life; and I will raise him up at the Last Day.

⁶⁸ But Simon Peter answered: "Master, to whom shall we go? Immortal Life is in your teaching;

¹² The hired man who is not a shepherd, and who does not own the sheep, when he sees a wolf coming, leaves them and runs away; then the wolf seizes them, and scatters the flock.

²⁶ But you do not believe me, because you are not of my flock. ²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me; ²⁸ And I give them Immortal Life, and they shall not be lost; nor shall any one snatch them out of my hands.

² Even as thou gavest him power over all mankind, that he should give Immortal Life to all those whom thou has given him.

²⁴ Father, my desire for all those whom thou has given me is that they may be with me where I am, so that they may see the honor which thou has given me; for thou didst love me before the beginning of the world.

¹¹ Either Jews by birth or converts, and some are Cretans and Arabians--yet we all alike hear them speaking in our own tongues of the great things that God has done."

¹⁵ Again he was aware of a voice which said-- "What God has pronounced 'clean', do not regard as 'defiled'."

³⁶ God has sent his Message to the Israelites and told them, through Jesus Christ, the Good News of peace--and Jesus is Lord of all!

² But, when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those who were converts from Judaism began to attack him,

³⁰ And this they did, sending it to the Officers of the Church by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

⁴⁸ On hearing this, the Gentiles were glad and extolled God's Message; and all those who had been enrolled for Immortal Life became believers in Christ;

²³ They also appointed Officers for them in every Church, and, after prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lord in whom they had learned to believe.

¹ But certain persons came down from Judea, and began to teach the Brethren that, unless they were circumcised, in accordance with the custom enjoined by Moses, they could not be saved.

¹⁸ Says the Lord, as he does these things, foreknown from of old.'

²⁴ As we had heard that some of our number had upset you by their assertions, and unsettled your minds--without instructions from us--

²⁶ He made all races of the earth's surface--fixing a time for their rise and fall, and the limits of their settlements--

²⁸ For in him we live and move and are. To use the words of some of your own poets--'His offspring, too, are we.'

²⁸ For he vigorously confuted the Jews, publicly proving by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

²⁹ I know that, after my departure, merciless wolves will get in among you, who will not spare the flock;

⁷ For several days our progress was slow, and it was only with difficulty that we arrived off Cnidus. As the wind was still unfavorable when we came off Cape Salmone, we sailed under the lee of Crete,

¹² And, as the harbor was not a suitable one to winter in, the majority were in favor of continuing the voyage, in hope of being able to reach Phoenix, and winter there. Phoenix was a Cretan harbor, open to the north-east and south-east.

²¹ It was then, when they had gone a long time without food, that Paul came forward, and said: "My friends, you should have listened to me, and not have sailed from Crete and so incurred this injury and damage.

¹ To all in Rome who are dear to God and have been called to become Christ's People, From Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, who has been called to become an Apostle, and has been set apart to tell God's Good News. ² This Good News God promised long ago through his Prophets in the sacred Scriptures,

⁷ May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

¹² Or rather that both you and I may find encouragement in each other's faith.

²⁸ Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things.

⁷ To those who, by perseverance in doing good, aim at glory, honor, and all that is imperishable, he will give Immortal Life;

¹⁸ And, having been carefully instructed from the Law, have learned to appreciate the finer moral distinctions. ¹⁹ Perhaps you are confident that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in the dark, an instructor of the unintelligent, ²⁰ And a teacher of the childish, because in the Law you possess the outline of all Knowledge and Truth. ²¹ Why, then, you teacher of others, do not you teach yourself? Do you preach against stealing, and yet steal? ²² Do you forbid adultery, and yet commit adultery? Do you loathe idols, and yet plunder temples? ²³ Boasting, as you do, of your Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law? ²⁴ For, as Scripture says-'The name of God is reviled among the Gentiles because of you'!

¹⁹ Now we know that everything said in the Law is addressed to those who are under its authority, in order that every mouth may be closed, and the whole world become liable to the judgment of God.

² It is through him that, by reason of our faith, we have obtained admission to that place in God's favor in which we not stand. So let us exult in our hope of attaining God's glorious ideal.

⁴ For we know that trouble develops endurance, and endurance strength of character, and strength of character hope,

⁶ Seeing that, while we were still powerless, Christ, in God's good time, died on behalf of the godless.

²¹ In order than, just as Sin had reigned in the realm of Death, so, too, might Loving-kindness reign through righteousness, and result in Immortal Life, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

²³ The wages of Sin are Death, but the gift of God is Immortal Life, through union with Christ Jesus, our Lord.

¹⁴ But how, it may be asked, are they to invoke one in whom they have not learned to believe? And how are they to believe in one whose words they have not heard? And how are they to hear his words unless some one proclaims him? ¹⁵ And how are men to proclaim him unless they are sent as his messengers? As Scripture says--'How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!'

¹⁴ Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is 'defiling in itself.' A thing is 'defiling' only to him who holds it to be so.

²⁰ Do not undo God's work for the sake of what you eat. Though everything is 'clean,' yet, if a man eats so as to put a stumbling- block in the way of others, he does wrong.

²³ He, however, who has misgivings stands condemned if he still eats, because his doing so is not the result of faith. And anything not done as the result of faith is a sin.

¹⁹ By my words and actions, through the power displayed in signs and marvels, and through the power of the Holy Spirit. And so, starting from Jerusalem and its neighborhood, and going as far as Illyria, I have told in full the Good News of the Christ;

¹⁷ I urge you, Brothers, to be on your guard against people who, by disregarding the teaching which you received, cause divisions and create difficulties; dissociate yourselves from them. ¹⁸ For such persons are not serving Christ, our Master, but are slaves to their own appetites; and, by their smooth words and flattery, they deceive simple-minded people.

¹⁸ For such persons are not serving Christ, our Master, but are slaves to their own appetites; and, by their smooth words and flattery, they deceive simple-minded people.

²⁵ Now to him who is able to strengthen you, as promised in the Good News entrusted to me and in the proclamation of Jesus Christ, in accordance with the revelation of that hidden purpose, which in past ages was kept secret but now has been revealed ²⁶ And, in obedience to the command of the Immortal God, made known through the writings of the Prophets to all nations, to secure submission to the Faith--

¹ Let men look upon us as Christ's servants, and as stewards of the hidden truths of God. ² Now what we look for in stewards is that they should be trustworthy.

¹² Everything is allowable for me! Yes, but everything is not profitable. Everything is allowable for me! Yes, but for my part, I will not let myself be enslaved by anything. ¹³ Food exists for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will put an end to both the one and the other. The body, however, exists, not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

⁷ Still, it is not every one that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled.

¹⁷ If I do this work willingly, I have a reward; but, if unwillingly, I have been charged to perform a duty.

²³ Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything is not profitable. Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything does not build up character.

²⁵ Eat anything that is sold in the market, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples;

³¹ Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do everything to the honor of God.

²⁷ Therefore, whoever eats the bread, or drinks the Lord's cup, in an irreverent spirit, will have to answer for an offence against the Lord's body and blood. ²⁸ Let each man look into his own heart, and only then eat of the bread and drink from the cup. ²⁹ For the man who eats and drinks brings a judgment upon himself by his eating and drinking, when he does not discern the body.

³⁴ If a man is hungry, let him eat at home, so that your meetings may not bring a judgment upon you. The other details I will settle when I come.

²⁴ While, if all those present use the gift of preaching, and an unbeliever, or a man without the gift, comes in, he is convinced of his sinfulness by them all, he is called to account by them all;

⁴⁰ Let everything be done in a proper and orderly manner.

¹ To the Church of God in Corinth, and to all Christ's People throughout Greece, from Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, and from Timothy, a Brother.

¹³ I could get no peace of mind because I failed to find Titus, my Brother; so I took leave of the people there, and went on to Macedonia.

¹³ But, in the same spirit of faith as that expressed in the words--'I believed, and therefore I spoke,' we, also believe, and therefore speak.

⁴ No, we are trying to commend ourselves under all circumstances, as God's ministers should--in many an hour of endurance, in troubles, in hardships, in difficulties, ⁵ In floggings, in imprisonments, in riots, in toils, in sleepless nights, in fastings; ⁶ By purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindliness, by holiness of spirit, by unfeigned love; ⁷ By the Message of Truth, and by the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; ⁸ Amid honor and disrepute, amid slander and praise; regarded as deceivers, yet proved to be true;

⁶ But God, who encourages the downcast, has encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.

⁸ For, though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Even if I were inclined to regret it--for I see that my letter did cause you sorrow though only for a time-- ⁹ I am glad now; not because of the sorrow it caused you, but because your sorrow brought you to repentance. For it was God's will that you should feel sorrow, in order that you should not suffer loss in any way at our hands. ¹⁰ For, when sorrow is in accordance with God's will, it results in a repentance leading to Salvation, and which will never be regretted. The sure result of the sorrow that the world knows is Death. ¹¹ For see what results that other sorrow--sorrow in accordance with God's will--has had in your case. What earnestness it produced! what explanations! what strong feeling! what alarm! what longing! what eagerness! what readiness to punish! You have proved yourselves altogether free from guilt in that matter. ¹² So, then, even though I did write to you, it was not for the sake of the wrong-doer, or of the man who was wronged, but to make you conscious, in the sight of God, of your own earnest care for us. And it is this that has encouraged us. ¹³ In addition to the encouragement that this gave us, we were made far happier still by the happiness of Titus for his heart has been cheered by you all. ¹⁴ Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, you did not put me to shame; but, just as every thing we had said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has also proved to be the truth.

⁶ And this led us to urge upon Titus that, as he had started the work for you, he should also see to the completion of this expression of your love.

¹⁶ I thank God for inspiring Titus with the same keen interest in your welfare that I have;

²³ If I must say anything about Titus, he is my intimate companion, and he shares my work for you; if it is our Brothers, they are delegates of the Churches, an honor to Christ.

¹⁰ As surely as I know anything of the Truth of Christ, this boast, as far as I am concerned, shall not be stopped in any part of Greece.

¹² What I am doing now I shall continue to do, that I may cut away the ground from under those who are wishing for some ground for attacking me, so that as regards the thing of which they boast they may appear in their true characters, just as we do. ¹³ Men of this stamp are false apostles, treacherous workers, disguising themselves as Apostles of Christ! ¹⁴ And no wonder; for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of Light. ¹⁵ It is not surprising, therefore, if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of Righteousness. But their end will be in accordance with their actions.

¹⁸ I urged Titus to go, and I sent our Brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Did not we live in the same Spirit, and tread in the same footsteps?

¹⁰ This is my reason for writing as I am now doing, while I am away from you, so that, when I am with you, I may not act harshly in the exercise of the authority which the Lord gave me--and gave me for building up and not for pulling down.

⁶ I am astonished at your so soon deserting him, who called you through the love of Christ, for a different 'Good News,' ⁷ Which is really no Good News at all. But then, I know that there are people who are harassing you, and who want to pervert the Good News of the Christ. ⁸ Yet even if we--or if an angel from Heaven were to tell you any other 'Good News' than that which we told you, may he be accursed!

³ Yet even my companion, Titus, though a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised. ⁴ But, on account of the false Brothers who had stolen in, the men who had crept in to spy upon the liberty which we have through union with Christ Jesus, in order to bring us back to slavery--

¹ Foolish Galatians! Who has been fascinating you--you before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was depicted upon the cross?

⁴ But, when the full time came, God sent his Son--born a woman's child, born subject to Law--

⁹ But now that you have found God--or, rather, have been found by him--how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves?

¹⁷ Certain people are seeking your favor, but with no honorable object. No, indeed, they want to isolate you, so that you will have to seek their favor. ¹⁸ It is always honorable to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, and not only when I am with you, my dear children-- ¹⁹ You for whom I am again enduring a mother's pains, till a likeness to Christ shall have been formed in you. ²⁰ But I could wish to be with you now and speak in a different tone, for I am perplexed about you. ²¹ Tell me, you who want to be still subject to Law--Why do not you listen to the Law?

¹ It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery. ² Understand that I, Paul, myself tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, Christ will avail you nothing. ³ I again declare to every one who receives circumcision, that he binds himself to obey the whole Law. ⁴ You have severed yourselves from Christ--you who are seeking to be pronounced righteous through Law; you have fallen away from love.

² May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

¹⁰ In view of that Divine Order which was to mark the completion of the ages, when he should make everything, both in Heaven and on earth, center in him.

⁸ For it is by God's loving-kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God's.

¹⁷ He came with the Good News of peace for you who were 'far off,' and of peace for those who were 'near';

⁵ In former generations it was not made known to mankind, as fully as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to the Apostles and Prophets among Christ's People-- ⁶ That, by union with Christ Jesus and through the Good News, the Gentiles are co-heirs with us and members of one Body, and that they share with us in God's Promise. ⁷ Of this Good News I became a minister, in virtue of the charge with which God entrusted me in the exercise of his power-- ⁸ Yes, to me, who am less than the least of all Christ's People, was this charge entrusted!--to tell the Gentiles the Good News of the boundless wealth to be found in the Christ,

¹⁴ Then we shall no longer be like infants, tossed backward and forward, blown about by every breath of human teaching, through the trickery and the craftiness of men, towards the snares of error;

⁶ Do not let any one deceive you with specious arguments. Those are the sins that bring down the Wrath of God upon the disobedient.

¹⁸ Do not drink wine to excess, for that leads to profligacy; but seek to be filled with the Spirit of God, and speak to one another in psalms and hymns and sacred songs.

¹ To all Christ's People at Philippi, with the Presiding Officers and Assistants, from Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus.

¹³ It has even become evident, not only to all the Imperial Guard, but to every one else, that it is for Christ's sake that I am in chains.

² Beware of those 'dogs'! Beware of those mischievous workers! Beware of the men who mutilate themselves! ³ For it is we who are the circumcised--we whose worship is prompted by the Spirit of God, who exult in Christ Jesus, and who do not rely upon external privileges;

² To Christ's People at Colossae--the Brothers who are faithful to him: May God, our Father, bless you and give you peace.

⁶ Bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you, from the very day that you heard of God's loving-kindness, and understood what that loving-kindness really is.

²³ If only you remain true to your Faith, firm and immovable, never abandoning the hope held out in the Good News to which you listened, which has been proclaimed among all created things under Heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

²⁷ To whom it was his pleasure to make known the surpassing glory of that hidden Truth when proclaimed among the Gentiles--'Christ among you! Your Hope of glory!'

² In the hope that they, being bound to one another by love, and keeping in view the full blessedness of a firm conviction, may be encouraged to strive for a perfect knowledge of God's hidden Truth,

⁵ It is true that I am not with you in person, but I am with you in spirit, and am glad to see the good order and the unbroken front resulting from your faith in Christ.

²² For all the things referred to in them cease to exist when used. You are following mere human directions and instructions.

⁴ But, having been found worthy by God to be entrusted with the Good News, therefore we tell it; with a view to please, not men, but God who proves our hearts.

¹⁰ You will bear witness, and God also, that our relations with you who believed in Christ were pure, and upright, and beyond reproach.

¹⁵ The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the Prophets, and persecuted us also. They do not try to please God, and they are enemies to all mankind,

⁸ But let us, who belong to the Day, control ourselves, and put on faith and love as a breast plate, and the hope of Salvation as a helmet.

¹⁴ We entreat you also, Brothers--warn the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, give a helping hand to the weak, and be patient with every one.

²¹ Bring everything to the test; cling to what is good;

¹⁰ to the ruin of those who are on the path to destruction, because they have never received and loved the Truth to their own Salvation. ¹¹ That is why God places them under the influence of a delusion, to cause them to believe a lie; ¹² So that sentence may be passed on all those who refuse to believe the Truth, but delight in wickedness. ¹³ But, Brothers, whom the Lord loves, it is our duty always to thank God about you, for, from the first, God chose you for Salvation through the purifying influence of the Spirit, and your belief in the Truth. ¹⁴ To this you were called by the Good News which we brought you, to attain to the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁵ Stand firm then, Brothers, and hold fast to the truths that we taught you, whether by word or by letter.

¹ From Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the appointment of God, our Savior, and Christ Jesus, our Hope.

¹ From Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the appointment of God, our Savior, and Christ Jesus, our Hope. ² To Timothy, my true Child in the Faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord, bless you, and be merciful to you, and give you peace. ³ I beg you, as I did when I was on my way into Macedonia, to remain at Ephesus; that you may instruct certain people there not to teach new and strange doctrines, ⁴ nor to devote their attention to legends and interminable genealogies, which tend to give rise to argument rather than to further that divine plan which is revealed in the Faith.

⁴ nor to devote their attention to legends and interminable genealogies, which tend to give rise to argument rather than to further that divine plan which is revealed in the Faith.

⁴ nor to devote their attention to legends and interminable genealogies, which tend to give rise to argument rather than to further that divine plan which is revealed in the Faith. ⁵ The object of all instruction is to call forth that love which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

⁵ The object of all instruction is to call forth that love which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith. ⁶ And it is because they have not aimed at these things that the attention of certain people has been diverted to unprofitable subjects.

⁶ And it is because they have not aimed at these things that the attention of certain people has been diverted to unprofitable subjects. ⁷ They want to be Teachers of the Law, and yet do not understand either the words they use, or the subjects on which they speak so confidently.

⁹ by one who recognizes that laws were not made for good men, but for the lawless and disorderly, for irreligious and wicked people, for those who are irreverent and profane, for those who ill-treat their fathers or mothers, for murderers, ¹⁰ for the immoral, for people guilty of sodomy, for slave-dealers, for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else is opposed to sound Christian teaching-- ¹¹ as is taught in the glorious Good News of the ever-blessed God, with which I was entrusted.

¹⁵ How true the saying is, and worthy of the fullest acceptance, that 'Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners'! And there is no greater sinner than I!

¹⁹ with faith, and with a clear conscience; and it is because they have thrust this aside, that, as regards the Faith, some have wrecked their lives.

³ This will be good and acceptable in the eyes of God, our Savior, ⁴ whose will is that every one should be saved, and attain to a full knowledge of the Truth. ⁵ There is but one God, and one mediator between God and men--the man, Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave himself as a ransom on behalf of all men. This must be our testimony, as opportunities present themselves; ⁷ and it was for this that I was myself appointed a Herald and an Apostle (I am telling the simple truth and no lie)--a Teacher of the Gentiles in the Faith and Truth.

¹ How true is that saying! When a man aspires to be a Presiding-Officer in the Church, he is ambitious for a noble task. ² The Presiding-Officer should be a man of blameless character; a faithful husband; living a temperate, discreet, and well-ordered life; hospitable, and a skillful teacher,

² The Presiding-Officer should be a man of blameless character; a faithful husband; living a temperate, discreet, and well-ordered life; hospitable, and a skillful teacher,

² The Presiding-Officer should be a man of blameless character; a faithful husband; living a temperate, discreet, and well-ordered life; hospitable, and a skillful teacher, ³ not addicted to drink or brawling, but of a forbearing and peaceable disposition, and not a lover of money;

³ not addicted to drink or brawling, but of a forbearing and peaceable disposition, and not a lover of money; ⁴ he should be a man who rules his own household well, and whose children are kept under control and are well-behaved.

⁴ he should be a man who rules his own household well, and whose children are kept under control and are well-behaved. ⁵ If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how can he take charge of the Church of God?

⁵ If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how can he take charge of the Church of God? ⁶ The Presiding-Officer should not be a recent convert, that he may not be blinded by pride and fall under the same condemnation as the Devil.

⁶ The Presiding-Officer should not be a recent convert, that he may not be blinded by pride and fall under the same condemnation as the Devil. ⁷ He should also be well spoken of by outsiders, that he may not incur censure and so fall into the snares of the Devil.

⁷ He should also be well spoken of by outsiders, that he may not incur censure and so fall into the snares of the Devil. ⁸ So, too, Assistant-Officers should be serious and straightforward men, not given to taking much drink or to questionable money-making, ⁹ but men who hold the deep truths of the Faith and have a clear conscience. ¹⁰ They should be tested first, and only appointed to their Office if no objection is raised against them. ¹¹ It should be the same with the women. They should be serious, not gossips, sober, and trustworthy in all respects. ¹² Assistant-Officers should be faithful husbands, and men who rule their children and their households well.

¹² Assistant-Officers should be faithful husbands, and men who rule their children and their households well. ¹³ Those who have filled that post with honour gain for themselves an honorable position, as well as great confidence through the faith that they place in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ Yes, and confessedly wonderful are the deep truths of our religion; for-- 'He was revealed in our nature, pronounced righteous in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up into glory.'

² who will make use of the hypocrisy of lying teachers. These men's consciences are seared, ³ and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the Faith and have attained a full knowledge of the Truth. ⁴ Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully;

⁶ Put all this before the Brethren, and you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, sustained by the precepts of the Faith and of that Good Teaching by which you have guided your life.

⁹ How true that saying is and worthy of the fullest acceptance! ¹⁰ With that aim we toil and struggle, for we have set our hopes on the Living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who hold the Faith.

¹² Do not let any one look down on you because you are young, but, by your conversation, your conduct, your love, your faith, and your purity, be an example to those who hold the Faith.

⁸ Any one who fails to provide for his own relations, and especially for those under his own roof, has disowned the Faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

²⁰ but rebuke offenders publicly, so that others may take warning.

³ Any one who teaches otherwise, and refuses his assent to sound instruction--the instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ--and to the teaching of religion,

³ Any one who teaches otherwise, and refuses his assent to sound instruction--the instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ--and to the teaching of religion, ⁴ is puffed up with conceit, not really knowing anything, but having a morbid craving for discussions and arguments. Such things only give rise to envy, quarreling, recriminations, base suspicions, ⁵ and incessant wrangling on the part of these corrupt-minded people who have lost all hold on the Truth, and who think of religion only as a source of gain.

⁵ and incessant wrangling on the part of these corrupt-minded people who have lost all hold on the Truth, and who think of religion only as a source of gain.

¹¹ But do you, Servant of God, avoid all this. Aim at righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, gentleness. ¹² Run the great race of the Faith, and win the Immortal Life. It was for this that you received the Call, and, in the presence of many witnesses, made the great profession of Faith.

¹⁹ storing up for themselves what in the future will prove to be a good foundation, that they may gain the only true Life.

¹ To Timothy, my dear Child, from Paul who, by the will of God, is an Apostle of Christ Jesus, charged to proclaim the Life that comes from union with Christ Jesus. May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord, bless you, and be merciful to you, and give you peace. ² OMITTED TEXT

⁹ It was God who saved us, and from him we received our solemn Call--not as a reward for anything that we had done, but in fulfillment of his own loving purpose. For that love was extended to us, through Christ Jesus, before time began, ¹⁰ and has now been made apparent through the Appearing of our Saviour, Christ Jesus; who has made an end of Death, and has brought Life and Immortality to light by that Good News, ¹¹ of which I was myself appointed a Herald and Apostle, and Teacher.

¹³ Keep before you, as an example of sound teaching, all that you learnt from me as you listened with that faith and love which come from union with Christ Jesus.

² and what you learnt from me, in the presence of many listeners, entrust to reliable men, who will be able in their turn to teach others.

¹⁰ and that is why I submit to anything for the sake of God's People, that they also may obtain the Salvation which comes from union with Christ Jesus, and imperishable glory.

¹³ If we lose our trust, he is still to be trusted, for he cannot be false to himself!'

¹⁵ Do your utmost to show yourself true to God, a workman with no reason to be ashamed, accurate in delivering the Message of the Truth.

²² Flee from the passions of youth, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in the company of those who, with a pure heart, invoke the Lord. ²³ Shun foolish and ignorant discussions, for you know that they only breed quarrels; ²⁴ and a Servant of the Lord should never quarrel. He ought, on the contrary, to be courteous to every one, a skillful teacher, and forbearing. ²⁵ He should instruct his opponents in a gentle spirit; for, possibly, God may give them a repentance that will lead to a fuller knowledge of Truth,

²⁵ He should instruct his opponents in a gentle spirit; for, possibly, God may give them a repentance that will lead to a fuller knowledge of Truth,

³ incapable of affection, merciless, slanderous, wanting in self-control, brutal, careless of the right,

⁵ and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such men as these. ⁶ For among them are to be found those who creep into homes and captivate weak women--women who, loaded with sins, and slaves to all kinds of passions,

⁶ For among them are to be found those who creep into homes and captivate weak women--women who, loaded with sins, and slaves to all kinds of passions, ⁷ are always learning, and yet never able to attain to a real knowledge of the Truth. ⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these people, in their turn, oppose the Truth. Their minds are corrupted, and, as regards the Faith, they are utterly worthless.

¹³ but wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves.

² Proclaim the Message, be ready in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, encourage, never failing to instruct with forbearance. ³ For a time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching. They will follow their own wishes, and, in their itching for novelty, procure themselves a crowd of teachers. ⁴ They will turn a deaf ear to the Truth, and give their attention to legends instead.

³ and has revealed at his own time in his Message, with the proclamation of which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior.

⁵ My reason for leaving you in Crete was that you might put in order what had been left unsettled, and appoint Officers of the Church in the various towns, as I myself directed you. ⁶ They are to be men of irreproachable character, who are faithful husbands, whose children are Christians and have never been charged with dissolute conduct or have been unruly. ⁷ For a Presiding-Officer, as God's steward, ought to be a man of irreproachable character; not self-willed or quick-tempered, nor addicted to drink or to brawling or to questionable money-making.

⁷ For a Presiding-Officer, as God's steward, ought to be a man of irreproachable character; not self-willed or quick-tempered, nor addicted to drink or to brawling or to questionable money-making. ⁸ On the contrary, he should be hospitable, eager for the right discreet, upright, a man of holy life and capable of self-restraint, ⁹ who holds doctrine that can be relied on as being in accordance with the accepted Teaching; so that he may be able to encourage others by sound teaching, as well as to refute our opponents. ¹⁰ There are, indeed, many unruly persons--great talkers who deceive themselves, principally converts from Judaism, ¹¹ whose mouths ought to be stopped; for they upset whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, merely to make questionable gains.

¹ Do you, however, speak of such subjects as properly have a place in sound Christian teaching. ² Teach that the older men should be temperate, serious, and discreet; strong in faith, love, and endurance. ³ So, too, that the older women should be reverent in their demeanor, and that they should avoid scandal, and beware of becoming slaves to drink;

⁷ Above all, set an example of doing good. Show sincerity in your teaching, and a serious spirit;

⁷ Above all, set an example of doing good. Show sincerity in your teaching, and a serious spirit; ⁸ let the instruction that you give be sound and above reproach, so that the enemy may be ashamed when he fails to find anything bad to say about us.

¹⁰ Teach them not to contradict or to pilfer, but to show such praiseworthy fidelity in everything, as to recommend the teaching about God our Savior by all that they do. ¹¹ For the loving-kindness of God has been revealed, bringing Salvation for all; ¹² leading us to renounce irreligious ways and worldly ambitions, and to live discreet, upright, and religious lives here in this present world, ¹³ while we are awaiting our Blessed Hope--the Appearing in glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ Speak of all this, and encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let any one despise you.

⁴ But, when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for man were revealed, he saved us, ⁵ not as the result of any righteous actions that we had done, but in fulfillment of his merciful purposes. He saved us by that Washing which was a New Birth to us, and by the renewing power of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which he poured out upon us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior; ⁷ that, having been pronounced righteous through his loving-kindness, we might enter on our inheritance with the hope of Immortal Life.

¹⁰ If a man is causing divisions among you, after warning him once or twice, have nothing more to say to him.

¹⁷ And therefore God, in his desire to show, with unmistakable plainness, to those who were to enter on the enjoyment of what he had promised, the unchangeableness of his purpose, bound himself with an oath. ¹⁸ For he intended us to find great encouragement in these two unchangeable things, which make it impossible for God to prove false--we, I mean, who fled for safety where we might lay hold on the hope set before us.

¹⁴ how much more will the blood of the Christ, who, through his eternal Spirit, offered himself up to God, as a victim without blemish, purify our consciences from a lifeless formality, and fit us for the service of the Living God!

²² let us draw near to God in all sincerity of heart and in perfect faith, with our hearts purified by the sprinkled blood from all consciousness of wrong, and with our bodies washed with pure water.

²⁵ Beware how you refuse to hear him who is speaking. For, if the Israelites did not escape punishment, when they refused to listen to him who taught them on earth the divine will, far worse will it be for us, if we turn away from him who is teaching us from Heaven.

¹⁹ Mark this, my dear Brothers--Let every one be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry; ²⁰ For the anger of man does not forward the righteous purpose of God.

²⁶ When a man appears to be religious, yet does not bridle his tongue, but imposes upon his own conscience, that man's religious observances are valueless.

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has, in his great mercy, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ given us the new Life of undying hope, that promises an inheritance, imperishable, stainless, unfading, which has been reserved for you in Heaven--

²⁰ Destined for this before the beginning of the world, he has been revealed in these last days for your sakes, ²¹ who, through him, are faithful to God who raised him from the dead and gave him honour, so that your faith and hope are now in God. ²² Now that, by your obedience to the Truth, you have purified your lives, so that there is growing up among you a genuine brotherly affection, love one another earnestly with all your hearts; ²³ since your new Life has come, not from perishable, but imperishable, seed, through the Message of the Everliving God.

¹⁰ Whatever the gift that each has received, use it in the service of others, as good stewards of the varied bounty of God.

² I urge you to be true shepherds of the flock of God among you, not because you are compelled, but of your own free will; not from a base love of gain, but with a ready spirit;

¹ To those to whom, through the justice of our God and Savior Jesus Christ, there has been granted faith equally privileged with our own, from Simon Peter, a servant and an Apostle of Jesus Christ.

³ For his divine power has given us everything that is needful for a life of piety, as we advance in the knowledge of him who called us by a glorious manifestation of his goodness.

¹¹ For thus you will be given a triumphant admission into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

¹ But there were false prophets also in the nation, just as there will be false teachers among you, men who will secretly introduce ruinous divisions, disowning even the Lord who bought them, and bringing speedy Ruin upon themselves.

¹ But there were false prophets also in the nation, just as there will be false teachers among you, men who will secretly introduce ruinous divisions, disowning even the Lord who bought them, and bringing speedy Ruin upon themselves. ² There will be many, too, who will follow their licentious courses, and cause the Way of the Truth to be maligned.

² There will be many, too, who will follow their licentious courses, and cause the Way of the Truth to be maligned. ³ In their covetousness they will try to make you a source of profit by their fabrications; but for a long time past their Sentence has not been standing idle, nor their Ruin slumbering.

¹⁰ especially those who, following the promptings of their lower nature, indulge their polluting passions and despise all control. Audacious and self-willed, they feel no awe of the Mighty, maligning them,

¹² These men, however, like animals without reason, intended by nature to be caught and killed--these men, I say, malign those of whom they know nothing, and will assuredly perish through their own corruption,

¹⁵ Leaving the straight road, they have gone astray and followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on the reward for wrong-doing,

²⁰ If, after having escaped the polluting influences of the world, through knowing our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them, and give way to them, their last state has become worse than their first.

²² In their case is seen the truth of the proverb-- 'A dog returns to what he has vomited' and 'A sow after washing to her wallowing-place in the mud.'

² I want you to recall what was foretold by the holy Prophets, as well as the Command of our Lord and Savior given to you through your Apostles.

¹¹ Now, since all these things are in the process of dissolution, think what you yourselves ought to be--what holy and pious lives you ought to lead,

¹⁸ and advance in the love and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. All glory be to him now and for ever.

⁴ The man who says 'I know Jesus,' but does not lay his commands to heart, is a liar, and the Truth has no place in him;

¹⁸ My Children, these are the last days. You were told that an Anti-Christ was coming; and many Anti-Christ's have already arisen. By that we know that these are the last days.

²³ No one who rejects the Son has found the Father; he who acknowledges the Son has found the Father also.

²⁵ And this is what he himself promised us--The Immortal Life!

² Dear friends, we are God's Children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is that, when it is revealed, we shall be like Christ; because we shall see him as he is. ³ And every one who has this hope with regard to Christ tries to make himself pure--as Christ is pure.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of Death into Life, because we love our Brothers. The man who does not love remains in a state of Death.

¹ Dear friends, do not trust every inspiration, but test each inspiration, to see whether it proceeds from God; because many false Prophets have gone out into the world.

¹ Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has received the new Life from God; and every one who loves him who gave that Life loves him who has received it.

¹¹ And that testimony is that God gave us Immortal Life, and that this Life is in his Son. ¹² He who finds the Son finds Life; he who does not find the Son of God does not find Life. ¹³ I write this to you, that you may realize that you have found Immortal Life--you who believe in the Name of the Son of God. ¹⁴ And this is the confidence with which we approach him, that whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will, he listens to us.

²⁰ We realize, too, that the Son of God has come among us, and has given us the discernment to know the True God; and we are in union with the True God by our union with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the True God and he is Immortal Life.

³ Dear friends, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common Salvation, I felt that I must write to you at once to urge you to fight in defense of the Faith that has once for all been entrusted to the keeping of Christ's People. ⁴ For there have crept in among you certain godless people, whose sentence has long since been pronounced, and who make the mercy of God an excuse for profligacy, and disown our only lord and master, Jesus Christ.

⁸ Yet in the very same way these men, too, cherishing vain dreams, pollute our human nature, reject control, and malign the Mighty. ⁹ Yet even Michael, the Archangel, when, in his dispute with the Devil, he was arguing about the body of Moses, did not venture to charge him with maligning, but said merely 'The Lord rebuke you!' ¹⁰ But these men malign whatever they do not understand; while they use such things as they know by instinct (like the animals that have no reason) for their own corruption. ¹¹ Alas for them! They walk in the steps of Cain; led astray by Balaam's love of gain, they plunge into sin, and meet their ruin through rebellion like that of Korah. ¹² These are the men who are blots upon your 'Love-feasts,' when they feast together and provide without scruple for themselves alone. They are clouds without rain, driven before the winds; they are leafless trees without a vestige of fruit, dead through and through, torn up by the roots; ¹³ They are wild sea waves, foaming with their own shame; they are 'wandering stars,' for which the blackest darkness has been reserved for ever.

²¹ and keep within the love of God, while waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring you to Immortal Life.

⁶ But this is in your favor--You hate the life lived by the Nikolaitans, and I also hate it.

¹⁴ Yet I have a few things against you--You have among you those who hold to the Teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put temptations in the way of the Israelites, so that they should eat idol-offerings and commit licentious acts.

²⁵ only hold fast to what you have received, until I come.

³ Therefore remember what you have received and heard, and lay it to heart and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I shall come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I am coming to you.

¹¹ I will come quickly. Hold to what you have received, that no one may take your crown.

⁸ All who are living on earth will worship it--all whose names have not been written in the Lamb's Book of Life, the Lamb that has been sacrificed from the foundation of the world.

¹⁶ He who was sitting on the cloud brought his sickle down upon the earth, and the Harvest of Earth was reaped.

⁸ The Beast that you saw was, but is not, and is about to rise out of the bottomless pit, and is on its way to destruction. Those who are living on earth will be amazed--those whose names have not been written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world--when they see that the Beast was, but is not, and yet will come.'

⁸ But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death.'

²⁷ 'Never shall any unhallowed thing enter it,' nor he whose life is shameful and false, but only 'those whose names have been written in the Lamb's Book of Life.'