Titus 1

¹Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God and the acknowledging of the truth, which is according to godliness:

²Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world:

³But hath in due times manifested his word in preaching, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our Saviour:

⁴To Titus my beloved son, according to the common faith, grace and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Saviour.

⁵For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and shouldest ordain priests in every city, as I also appointed thee:

⁶If any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.

⁷For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:

⁸But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:

⁹Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine, and to convince the gainsayers.

¹⁰For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers, and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision:

¹¹Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

¹²One of them a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.

¹³This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;