| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Berean Study Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3In His own time He has made His word evident in the proclamation entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The reason I left you in Crete was that you would set in order what was unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-absorbed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He must hold firmly to the faithful word as it was taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who contradict it. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed. |
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