Titus 1 Cross References - Worsley

¹ Paul a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for promoting the faith of God's chosen people, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness: ² in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before all ages; ³ and hath in his own times manifested his word, by the preaching, with which I was intrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour: ⁴ to Titus my son in the common faith, grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. ⁵ For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest set in order what remained, and ordain elders in every city as I directed thee: ⁶ to wit, if any one be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of debauchery, or unruly. ⁷ For a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God, not self-willed, not passionate, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain: ⁸ but hospitable, benevolent, sober, just, holy, temperate; ⁹ holding fast the faithful word, according as he hath been taught, that he may be able both to instruct in sound doctrine, and to convince gainsayers. ¹⁰ For there are many disorderly persons, vain-talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision; whose mouths must be stopped: ¹¹ who subvert whole families, teaching what they ought not, for shameful gain: ¹² as said one of themselves, a prophet of their own, "The Cretans are always liars, mischievous beasts, sluggish gluttons." ¹³ This testimony is true: for which cause rebuke them sharply, that they may be found in the faith; ¹⁴ not attending to Jewish fables, and the precepts of men who turn away from the truth. ¹⁵ To the pure indeed all things are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure; even their mind and conscience is polluted. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but in works deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every thing that is good void of understanding.

⁹ but in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the injunctions of men.

¹⁸ But the things, which proceed out of the mouth, come from the heart, and those defile a man.

¹³ But wo unto you scribes and pharisees, hypocrites, who shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, nor suffer those that are entering to go in.

⁴⁵ Who then is the faithful and prudent servant, whom his lord hath set over his family to give them food in due season?

³⁴ Then will the king say to them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

⁴⁶ And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life everlasting.

⁷ and in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the injunctions of men.

¹⁷ And as he went out into the way, there came one running and kneeling to Him, and asked Him, Good master, what shall I do, that I may inherit eternal life?

³⁰ or lands for my sake and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold: now in this time indeed, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands with persecutions; but in the world to come life everlasting.

¹⁰ And the gospel must first be published to all nations.

¹⁵ And He said unto them, Go to all the world and preach the gospel to every one:

⁵ There was in the days of Herod king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia; and his wife was of the family of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

⁴⁷ for He hath regarded the low estate of his handmaid:

¹¹ that this day is born, in the city of David, your Saviour Christ the Lord.

³⁹ But the Lord said unto him, ye pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Senseless creatures! Did not He who made the outside, make also that which is within? give alms rather according to your ability: ⁴¹ and behold all things are clean to you.

⁴² And the Lord said, Who is indeed that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will set over his family to give out the measure of food in due season?

⁴⁰ And they dared not any more to ask Him any such question.

¹⁵ that whosoever believeth on Him may not perish, but have eternal life. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him might not perish, but have everlasting life:

⁴² and said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of what thou hast spoken; for we ourselves have heard Him, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

³⁹ Ye search the scriptures; for ye think that in them ye have eternal life:

⁵⁴ He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁶⁸ Then Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go?

¹² But the hireling, that is not the true shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf seizeth them, and disperseth the sheep.

²⁶ But ye believe not; because ye are not of my sheep: for as I said unto you, my sheep hear my voice, ²⁷ and I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; nor shall any one force them out of my hand.

² as Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that as to all which Thou hast given Him, He might give them eternal life;

²⁴ Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for Thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

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

¹⁵ And the voice said to him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, do not thou account polluted.

³⁶ According to the declaration which He made to the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.

² And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, those that were of the circumcision contended with him, saying,

³⁰ Which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

⁴⁸ And when the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were determined for eternal life believed.

²³ And when they had appointed them elders in every church, praying and fasting, they recommended them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.

¹ Now some that came down from Judea, taught the brethren, saying, Except ye be circumcised according to the law of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

¹⁸ Now all his works are known unto God from the beginning of the world:

²⁴ Forasmuch as we have heard, that some who went out from us, have troubled you by their discourses, unsettling your minds, saying, ye must be circumcised, and keep the law; to whom we gave no such commission;

²⁶ and hath made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined the seasons before-appointed them, and the bounds of their habitation;

²⁸ For in Him we live and move, and exist; as some also of your own poets have said, "For we his offspring are."

²⁸ For he disputed vehemently with the Jews in public, proving by the scriptures, that Jesus was the Christ.

²⁹ For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

⁷ And as we sailed slowly for many days, and were hardly got on to Cnidus, the wind not permitting us, we sailed under Crete by Salmone.

¹² And the haven not being commodious to winter in, the greater part advised to sail from thence, if they could possibly reach to Phenice to winter at that haven of Crete, which looks both to the south-west and north-west.

²¹ But after long abstinence from food, Paul stood up in the midst of them and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not loosed from Crete, and so have saved this damage and loss.

¹ Paul a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, ² separated unto the gospel of God, (which He had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures) concerning his Son,

⁷ to all that are in Rome beloved of God, called and holy: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² that is to say, that being among you we may be comforted together by the faith of each, both yours and mine.

²⁸ And as they were not careful to acknowledge God, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind to do things that were not fit to be done:

⁷ to them, who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, and honor, and immortality, eternal life:

¹⁸ and knowest his will, and approvest things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, ¹⁹ and art persuaded that thou art a guide of the blind, ²⁰ a light to them that are in the darkness, an instructor of the simple, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth which is in the law. ²¹ Thou then, who teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou, that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? ²² Thou, that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou, that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? ²³ Thou, that boastest in the law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God? ²⁴ for through you the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.

¹⁹ it saith to those under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world obnoxious to the justice of God.

² through whom also we have admission by faith into this grace in which we stand, and boast in hope of the glory of God.

⁴ and patience experience,

⁶ For when we were yet without strength, Christ died in due season for the ungodly.

²¹ so grace might reign through righteousness, unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.

²³ For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁴ But how shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? ¹⁵ and how shall they preach unless they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good tidings of peace, who bring the good tidings of good things?

¹⁴ I know and have been taught by the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: only to him that thinketh any thing unclean, to him it is unclean.

²⁰ Do not for the sake of meat destroy thy brother who is the work of God: all things indeed are pure; but to the man that eateth with offence it is evil.

²³ But he that hath any scruple, is condemned if he eat; because he doth it not with faith: and whatsoever is not of faith, is sin.

¹⁹ through the efficacy of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round as far as to Illyricum, I have fully declared the gospel of Christ:

¹⁷ Now I exhort you, brethren, to mark those who cause divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned: ¹⁸ and avoid them; for such people serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by a soothing address and good words deceive the hearts of the innocent.

¹⁸ and avoid them; for such people serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by a soothing address and good words deceive the hearts of the innocent.

²⁵ Now to Him that is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, (conformable to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret in former times, ²⁶ but is now manifested, and made known to all nations by the writings of the prophets, according to the appointment of the eternal God,

¹ Let a man so account of us, as the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. ² Now it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

¹² All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be under the power of any: ¹³ meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats, but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

⁷ But there is not in all men this knowledge: and some with a consciousness of the idol unto this day, eat it as a thing sacrificed to an idol, and so their conscience being weak is defiled.

¹⁷ Now if I do this willingly, I have a reward; and if unwillingly, yet I am intrusted with the commission, and I must execute it.

²³ If all things be lawful for me, yet all things are not expedient: all things may be lawful for me, but all things do not edify.

²⁵ Eat then whatever is sold in the shambles, asking no questions for conscience sake:

³¹ Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

²⁷ So that whosoever eateth this bread, or drinketh of the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. ²⁸ But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of this bread and drink of this cup: ²⁹ for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgement against himself, not distinguishing the Lord's body.

³⁴ and if any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together to your condemnation. And as to other things, I will set them in order when I come.

²⁴ But if all prophesy, and there come in an unbeliever, or one unlearned, he is convinced by all, he is judged by all.

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

¹ Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, and all the saints that are in Achaia:

¹³ yet I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother there; but taking my leave of them, I went away into Macedonia.

¹³ But having the same Spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I believed, and therefore have I spoken," we also believe, and therefore speak:

⁴ but in every thing approving ourselves as the ministers of God; by much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits, ⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings; ⁶ by purity, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the holy Spirit, ⁷ by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, with the armour of righteousness on the right and on the left; through honor and dishonor, ⁸ through evil report and good report;

⁶ But God, who comforteth those that are brought low, comforted us by the coming of Titus:

⁸ For though I grieved you by my letter, I do not repent, though I did repent; for I perceive that that epistle grieved you, though it was but for a little while. ⁹ However, now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance; for ye were grieved after a godly manner, so that ye received no damage from us. ¹⁰ For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. ¹¹ For behold this very thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly manner, what diligence it wrought in you! yea, what apology, what indignation, what fear, what earnest desire, what zeal, what revenge! by all which ye have shewn yourselves to be clear in the affair. ¹² Wherefore if I wrote in such a manner to you, it was not merely on his account who had done the wrong, nor for his sake who had been injured; but that our care for you in the sight of God might be manifested among you. ¹³ We were therefore comforted by your consolation; and rejoiced the more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all; ¹⁴ and because if I boasted of any thing to him concerning you, I was not ashamed; but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so likewise our boasting of you to Titus was truth.

⁶ Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had already begun, so he would also complete this grace among you.

¹⁶ But thanks be to God, who put the same concern for you into the heart of Titus:

²³ If then there be any inquiry about Titus, he is my collegue and fellow-laborer among you: and if our brethren be inquired after, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.

¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, this boast shall not be taken from me in the regions of Achaia.

¹² God knoweth. But what I do, I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those that desire an occasion of boasting or censure, that in what they boast of they may be found to do even as we do. ¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transformed into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder: for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. ¹⁵ It is therefore no great thing, if his ministers also be transformed into ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

¹⁸ I desired Titus to come to you, and with him I sent a brother: did Titus make a gain of you? did we not walk in the same spirit? did we not tread in the same steps?

¹⁰ Therefore I write these things while absent, that when present I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.

⁶ I wonder that ye are so soon removed from him who called you by the grace of Christ to another gospel: which is not another; ⁷ but there be some that disturb you, and would subvert the gospel of Christ. ⁸ But tho' we or an angel from heaven should preach to you any other gospel than what we have preached to you; let him be accursed.

³ But even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised; ⁴ and that because of the false brethren clandestinely introduced, who had crept in as spies upon our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

¹ O senseless Galatians, who hath so bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth? you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth as crucified.

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

⁹ But now that ye know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that ye turn again to the poor weak elements, to which ye desire again to be in bondage as before?

¹⁷ They are zealous for you, but not as they ought: for they would exclude us, that ye may be zealous for them: ¹⁸ But it is good to be zealously affected always in that which is good, and not only when I am present with you. ¹⁹ My little children, of whom I do as it were travail in birth again, ²⁰ till Christ be formed in you, I should be glad to be present with you even now, and to change my voice; for I am in doubt about you. ²¹ Tell me, you that are so desirous to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

¹ Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again in the yoke of bondage. ² Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. ³ And I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to the whole law. ⁴ Christ is become nothing to you, whosoever of you are seeking to be justified by the law: ye are fallen from the grace of the gospel.

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

¹⁰ that in the dispensation of the fulness of times, He might reduce all things, both in heaven and on earth, under one head in Christ:

⁸ For by grace ye are saved, through faith: and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: not by works, that no one may boast:

¹⁷ and He came and preached peace to you that were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

⁵ which in other generations was not made known to men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that the Gentiles should be co-heirs, ⁶ and of the same body, and joint-partakers of his promise in Christ, by the gospel: ⁷ of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God conferred on me by the effectual operation of his power. ⁸ On me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace bestowed, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

¹⁴ That we may be no longer children fluctuating and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the artful insinuations of men, and their crafty methods of deceiving;

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, in which there is riotous excess; but be filled with the Spirit:

¹ Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus, which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

¹³ so that my bonds are manifest in all the palace, and all other places, to be for the sake of Christ;

² Beware of those that are like dogs, beware of evil doers, beware of the concision. ³ For we are of the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit, rejoicing in Christ Jesus, and having no confidence in the flesh.

² and Timothy our brother, to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ at Colosse: grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁶ which is come unto you, even as in all the world, and is fruitful; as it hath been also among you, from the day in which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth.

²³ if so be ye continue grounded and settled in the faith, and be not moved from the gospel, which ye have heard, and which hath been preached throughout the whole creation, of which I Paul am a minister.

²⁷ to whom God would make known the rich glory of this mystery, among the gentiles; which is this, that Christ is in you the hope of glory:

² that their hearts may be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all the riches of a full assurance of understanding in these things, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of our God and Father, and of Christ:

⁵ For though I be absent in body, yet am I with you in spirit, rejoicing and beholding your regularity, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

²² handle not," which all tend to corruption in the using,) according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

⁴ but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and unblameably we behaved towards you that believe:

¹⁵ who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; who are displeasing to God, and contrary to all men:

⁸ but let us, who are of the day, be sober; putting on the breast-plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation.

¹⁴ And admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be of a patient spirit towards all.

²¹ yet try all things, and hold fast that which is good.

¹⁰ and wonders, and with all iniquitous fraud, among those that shall perish; because they received not the love of the truth, by which they might be saved. ¹¹ And for this cause God will send upon them the efficacy of error, so that they shall themselves believe the lie: ¹² that they may all be condemned, who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in iniquity. ¹³ But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord; because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth: ¹⁴ to which He hath called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁵ Therefore, brethren, be steady, and hold fast the traditions, which ye have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.

¹ Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the appointment of God our Saviour, and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

¹ Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the appointment of God our Saviour, and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope, ² to Timothy my true son in the faith, be grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord. ³ As I exhorted thee to stay at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain persons not to teach other doctrine, ⁴ nor attend to fables and endless genealogies, which occasion debates, rather than pious edification in the faith:

⁴ nor attend to fables and endless genealogies, which occasion debates, rather than pious edification in the faith:

⁴ nor attend to fables and endless genealogies, which occasion debates, rather than pious edification in the faith: ⁵ so do, and acquaint them that the end of that charge is charity, out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned:

⁵ so do, and acquaint them that the end of that charge is charity, out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned: ⁶ from which some having swerved are turned aside to vain discourses;

⁶ from which some having swerved are turned aside to vain discourses; ⁷ desiring to be teachers of the law, though they neither understand what they say, nor what things they assert.

⁹ knowing this, that a law does not lie against a righteous person, but against the lawless and unruly, the impious and wicked, the unholy and profane, ¹⁰ parricides, murderers, whoremongers, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, false-swearers, and if there be any thing else contrary to that sound doctrine, ¹¹ which is according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I was intrusted.

¹⁵ It is a truth highly to be believed, and worthy to be received by all, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners:---of whom I am one of the chief.

¹⁹ having faith and a good conscience, which some putting away have made shipwreck concerning the faith:

³ For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour: ⁴ who is willing that all men should be saved, and therefore come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus: ⁶ who gave himself a ransom for all, a testimony to be published in due time, ⁷ for which I was appointed a herald and an apostle. I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not; I am a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

¹ It is certain, if any one is desirous of the episcopal office, he desireth a good work. ² A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, sober, prudent, grave,

² A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, sober, prudent, grave,

² A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, sober, prudent, grave, ³ hospitable, able to teach, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain, moderate, not quarrelsome,

³ hospitable, able to teach, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain, moderate, not quarrelsome, ⁴ not covetous, governing his own family well, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

⁴ not covetous, governing his own family well, having his children in subjection with all gravity; ⁵ (for if any one know not how to govern his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

⁵ (for if any one know not how to govern his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) ⁶ not one newly converted, least being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

⁶ not one newly converted, least being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil. ⁷ He ought also to have an honorable testimony from those that are without, least he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

⁷ He ought also to have an honorable testimony from those that are without, least he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. ⁸ The deacons should likewise be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of base gain, ⁹ holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. ¹⁰ (And let these also first be proved, then let them take the office of deacons, if they be found blameless.) ¹¹ And their wives likewise grave, not slanderers, sober, and faithful in all things. ¹² Let the deacons too be husbands of one wife only, governing their children and their own houses well.

¹² Let the deacons too be husbands of one wife only, governing their children and their own houses well. ¹³ For they, that discharge the office of a deacon well, gain to themselves a good degree of honor, and much freedom in promoting the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, and received up into glory.

² and doctrines of demons founded in the hypocrisy of liars, who are seared in their own conscience, forbidding to marry, ³ and enjoining abstinence from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by those that believe and know the truth. ⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:

⁶ If thou lay these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, as one brought up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, to which thou hast attained.

⁹ this is a certain truth and worthy of all acceptance. ¹⁰ For to this end we both labour and suffer reproach, because we have hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

¹² Let no one have cause to despise thy youth; but he thou an example to believers in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

⁸ But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own family, he hath renounced the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

²⁰ Those that offend reprove before all, that others also may fear.

³ These things teach and exhort. If any one teach otherwise, and adhere not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to godliness;

³ These things teach and exhort. If any one teach otherwise, and adhere not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to godliness; ⁴ he is proud, knowing nothing, but is delirious about questions and strifes of words: from which cometh envy, contention, calumnies, wicked suspicions, perverse debates of men corrupted in mind, ⁵ and void of truth, accounting gain to be godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

⁵ and void of truth, accounting gain to be godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

¹¹ But do thou, O man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, piety, fidelity, love, patience, meekness. ¹² Maintain the glorious combat of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast made a good profession before many witnesses.

¹⁹ treasuring up to themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may obtain eternal life.

¹ Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus, ² to Timothy my beloved son, grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁹ who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose, and grace bestowed upon us through Christ Jesus, before the world was, ¹⁰ but now made manifest by the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel: for which I was appointed an herald, ¹¹ and an apostle, and a teacher of the gentiles:

¹³ Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

² and the things which thou hast heard from me, before many witnesses, these commit to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

¹⁰ Therefore I submit to every thing for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is by Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

¹³ If we are unfaithful, He continueth faithful notwithstanding; He cannot renounce Himself.

¹⁵ Endeavour to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

²² Flee youthful passions: and follow righteousness, fidelity, love, and peace, with all those that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart: ²³ but foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they produce quarrels; for the servant of the Lord ought not to wrangle, ²⁴ but to be gentle towards all men, ready to teach, patient under injuries, ²⁵ with meekness instructing those of different sentiments, not knowing but God may give them repentance to the acknowledgement of the truth;

²⁵ with meekness instructing those of different sentiments, not knowing but God may give them repentance to the acknowledgement of the truth;

³ without natural affection, perfidious, false accusers, intemperate, savage, enemies to the good, traitors,

⁵ having a form of godliness, but strangers to the power of it: from such turn away. ⁶ For of these are they who insinuate themselves into families, and captivate weak women, that are laden with sins,

⁶ For of these are they who insinuate themselves into families, and captivate weak women, that are laden with sins, ⁷ and led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁸ And as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth; being men of corrupt minds, and of no judgement in the faith.

¹³ But wicked men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

² preach the word, be instant both in season and out of season; convince, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and instruction. ³ For the time will come, when they will not bear sound doctrine; but having itching ears, will heap up to themselves teachers after their own hearts: ⁴ and turn away their attention from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

³ and hath in his own times manifested his word, by the preaching, with which I was intrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour:

⁵ For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest set in order what remained, and ordain elders in every city as I directed thee: ⁶ to wit, if any one be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of debauchery, or unruly. ⁷ For a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God, not self-willed, not passionate, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain:

⁷ For a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God, not self-willed, not passionate, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain: ⁸ but hospitable, benevolent, sober, just, holy, temperate; ⁹ holding fast the faithful word, according as he hath been taught, that he may be able both to instruct in sound doctrine, and to convince gainsayers. ¹⁰ For there are many disorderly persons, vain-talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision; whose mouths must be stopped: ¹¹ who subvert whole families, teaching what they ought not, for shameful gain:

¹ But do thou speak the things which become sound doctrine: ² that aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in the faith, in love, in patience: ³ the aged women likewise in behaviour as becometh saints, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

⁷ in all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works, with uncorruptness in teaching, gravity, sound doctrine that cannot be condemned;

⁷ in all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works, with uncorruptness in teaching, gravity, sound doctrine that cannot be condemned; ⁸ that he who opposeth it may be ashamed, having no evil to say of you.

¹⁰ not answering frowardly, not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. ¹¹ For the grace of God, that bringeth salvation, hath appeared to all men; ¹² teaching us that denying ungodliness, and worldly desires, we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in this present world; ¹³ looking for the blessed hope, and glorious appearance of the great God, and our Saviour, Jesus Christ:

¹⁵ These things speak, and exhort; and reprove offenders with all authority: that none may despise thee.

⁴ But when the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards man appeared, ⁵ not for works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his own mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the holy Spirit; ⁶ which He hath plentifully shed upon us, through Jesus Christ our Saviour: ⁷ that being justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

¹⁰ reject therefore such an heretical man, after the first and second admonition; knowing that such a one is perverted,

¹⁷ Wherefore God being willing more abundantly to manifest unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it with an oath: ¹⁸ that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to fail, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us;

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works, that ye may serve the living God?

²² let us draw near with sincerity, in the full assurance of faith, having our hearts cleansed from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

²⁵ See that ye reject not Him that speaketh; for if they escaped not, who rejected him that gave forth divine oracles on earth, much less shall we, if we turn away from Him that speaketh from heaven:

¹⁹ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: ²⁰ for the wrath of man doth not practise the righteousness of God.

²⁶ If any among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his heart, this man's devotion is vain.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath regenerated us to a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,

²⁰ who was indeed appointed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times, for your sakes, ²¹ who through Him trust in God that raised Him from the dead, and gave Him glory, that your faith and hope might be fixed in God. ²² Having therefore purified your souls by obedience to the truth, through the Spirit, to brotherly love unfeigned, love one another with a pure heart fervently: ²³ being regenerated not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever.

¹⁰ as every one hath received a gift, imparting it to each other, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

² taking the episcopal charge of it, not by constraint, but willingly; not for shameful lucre, but with a ready mind:

¹ Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us, in the righteousness of our God, and of our saviour Jesus Christ:

³ as his divine power hath given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who hath called us by that glory and virtue,

¹¹ For so an entrance shall be administered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

¹ But there were indeed false prophets among the people of old, as there will be also among you false teachers, who will privately introduce pernicious heresies, denying even the Lord that bought them, and bringing upon themselves swift destruction,

¹ But there were indeed false prophets among the people of old, as there will be also among you false teachers, who will privately introduce pernicious heresies, denying even the Lord that bought them, and bringing upon themselves swift destruction, ² And many will follow their pernicious tenets, on whose account the way of truth will be reproached:

² And many will follow their pernicious tenets, on whose account the way of truth will be reproached: ³ and by artful speeches they will make sale of you for gain. Whose judgement is long since hastening, and their destruction doth not slumber.

¹⁰ especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority; who, being audacious and self-willed, are not afraid to speak evil of dignities:

¹² But these men, like brute beasts naturally produced to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of things which they do not understand, shall perish by their own corruption; receiving the reward of their unrighteousness:

¹⁵ who have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity;

²⁰ For if, after they had escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and vanquished by them, their last state is worse than the first;

²² But it is happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog is returned to his own vomit, and, The swine that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

² that ye may be mindful of the words formerly spoken by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: knowing this first,

¹¹ Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness,

¹⁸ But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: to Him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

⁴ He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

¹⁸ Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that an antichrist will come, there are even now many antichrists, whereby we know that it is the last time.

²³ for whosoever denieth the Son, hath not the Father: but he that confesseth the Son acknowledgeth the Father also.

²⁵ And this is the promise which He hath promised us, even eternal life.

² Beloved, we are now the children of God, but it doth not yet appear what we shall be: we know however, that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. ³ And every one, that hath this hope in Him, purifieth himself, even as He is pure.

¹⁴ since we know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he, that loveth not his brother, remaineth in death.

¹ Beloved, believe not every Spirit, but try the spirits, whether they be of God: for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

¹ Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one, that loveth Him that begat, loveth Him also that is begotten of Him:

¹¹ And the testimony is this, that God hath given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son. ¹² He that hath the Son hath life: he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. ¹³ These things have I written to you, who believe on the name of the son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may the more firmly believe on the name of the Son of God. ¹⁴ And this is the confidence, which we have towards Him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, He heareth us:

²⁰ But we know that the son of God is come, and hath given us understanding, that we may know Him that is true, and we are in Him that is true, and in his son Jesus Christ: He is the true God, and eternal life.

³ Beloved, having an earnest desire to write to you concerning the common salvation, I was under a necessity of writing to exhort you that ye would strive earnestly for the faith which was once delivered to the saints. ⁴ For there have crept in some men, who have been of old described as under this condemnation, impious people, that turn the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and deny God the only Lord, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ So these vile dreamers also defile the flesh, despise authority, and speak evil of dignities. ⁹ Whereas Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, did not presume to bring against him a railing accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke thee." ¹⁰ But these men speak evil of what they know not: and what they know naturally, as brute animals, in these things they are corrupt. ¹¹ Wo unto them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and been carried away by Balaam's error, the love of lucre, and perished as in the contradiction of Korah. ¹² These are spots in your love-feasts, feeding themselves without fear, when they are feasting with you: clouds without water, carried about by the winds; trees withered and without fruit, twice dead and rooted up; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; ¹³ wandering stars, for whom blackness of darkness is reserved for ever.

²¹ looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

⁶ But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against thee; for thou hast there those that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

²⁵ but what ye have hold fast till I come.

³ Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent: for if thou be not watchful, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come upon thee.

¹¹ Behold, I come quickly; hold fast what thou hast, that no one may take thy crown.

⁸ So that all who dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

¹⁶ And He that sat upon the cloud put forth his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.

⁸ The beast, which thou sawest, was, and is not; but will rise out of the abyss, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth (whose names are not written on the book of life from the foundation of the world) shall wonder, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is to be.

⁸ But the fearful, and faithless, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

²⁷ And nothing shall enter into it that defileth, and practiseth abomination and falshood: but those only who are written in the Lamb's book of life.