TITUS
Chapter 1
Titu | OEBcth | 1:1 | From Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, charged to strengthen the faith of God’s chosen people, and their knowledge of that truth which makes for godliness | |
Titu | OEBcth | 1:2 | and is based on the hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began, | |
Titu | OEBcth | 1:3 | and has revealed at his own time in his message, with the proclamation of which I was entrusted by the command of God our Saviour. | |
Titu | OEBcth | 1:4 | To Titus, my true child in our one faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Saviour, bless you and give you peace. | |
Titu | OEBcth | 1:5 | My reason for leaving you in Crete was that you might put in order what had been left unsettled, and appoint officers of the church in the various towns, as I myself directed you. | |
Titu | OEBcth | 1:6 | They are to be of irreproachable character, faithful to their partners, whose children are Christians and have never been charged with dissolute conduct or have been unruly. | |
Titu | OEBcth | 1:7 | For a presiding officer, as God’s steward, ought to be of irreproachable character; not self-willed or quick-tempered, nor addicted to drink or to brawling or to questionable money-making. | |
Titu | OEBcth | 1:8 | On the contrary, they should be hospitable, eager for the right, discreet, upright, people of holy life and capable of self-restraint, | |
Titu | OEBcth | 1:9 | who hold doctrine that can be relied on as being in accordance with the accepted teaching; so that they may be able to encourage others by sound teaching, as well as to refute our opponents. | |
Titu | OEBcth | 1:10 | There are, indeed, many unruly persons — great talkers who deceive themselves, principally converts from Judaism, | |
Titu | OEBcth | 1:11 | whose mouths ought to be stopped; for they upset whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, merely to make questionable gains. | |
Titu | OEBcth | 1:12 | It was a Cretan — one of their own teachers — who said: ‘Cretans are always liars, base brutes, and gluttonous idlers’; and his statement is true. | |
Titu | OEBcth | 1:14 | and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs on the truth. | |
Titu | OEBcth | 1:15 | Everything is pure to the pure-minded, but to those whose minds are polluted and who are unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are alike polluted. | |