EMTV - Titus - 1

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

1:2  in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time itself,

1:3  but has in due time manifested His word in a proclamation, with which I was entrusted according to the command of God our Savior;

1:4  To Titus, my own son according to our common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

1:5  For this reason I left you behind in Crete, so that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and you should appoint elders in every city as I commanded you:

1:6  if a man is unimpeachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or who are insubordinate.

1:7  For a bishop must be unimpeachable, as God’s steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,

1:8  but hospitable, loving good, prudent, just, holy, temperate,

1:9  holding fast to the faithful word as he was taught, that he may be able to exhort by sound doctrine, and to convince those who oppose it.

1:10  For there are also many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

1:11  whom it is necessary to shut their mouths, who overturn whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

1:12  There said a certain one of them, a prophet of their own, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons."

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

1:14  not giving heed to Jewish myths and to commands of men turning away from the truth.

1:15  All things indeed are pure to the pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience have been defiled.

1:16  They profess to know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.