Worsley - Titus - 1

1:1  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:

1:2  in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before all ages;

1:3  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:

1:4  to Titus my son in the common faith, grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

1:5  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:

1:6  to wit, if any one be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of debauchery, or unruly.

1:7  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:

1:8  but hospitable, benevolent, sober, just, holy, temperate;

1:9  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.

1:10  For there are many disorderly persons, vain-talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision; whose mouths must be stopped:

1:11  who subvert whole families, teaching what they ought not, for shameful gain:

1:12  as said one of themselves, a prophet of their own, "The Cretans are always liars, mischievous beasts, sluggish gluttons."

1:13  This testimony is true: for which cause rebuke them sharply, that they may be found in the faith;

1:14  not attending to Jewish fables, and the precepts of men who turn away from the truth.

1:15  To the pure indeed all things are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure; even their mind and conscience is polluted.

1:16  They profess to know God, but in works deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every thing that is good void of understanding.