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¹ Paul, 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:² Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world:³ But hath in due times manifested his word in preaching, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our Saviour:⁴ To Titus, my beloved son according to the common faith, grace and peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Saviour.

⁵ For 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:

⁶ If any be without crime, the husband of one wife. having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly.⁷ For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, nor given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:⁸ But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:⁹ Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to convince the gainsayers.¹⁰ For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision.¹¹ Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.¹² One of them a prophet of their own, said: The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.¹³ This testimony is true. Wherefore, rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith:¹⁴ Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn themselves away from the truth.¹⁵ All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.¹⁶ They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him: being abominable and incredulous and to every good work reprobate.