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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to further 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 does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and which now at his appointed season he has brought to light through the preaching entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4To Titus, my true son 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 might put in order what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Since an overseer manages God's household, he must be blameless--not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach--and that for the sake of dishonest gain. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12One of Crete's own prophets has said it: "Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13This saying is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, 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 merely human commands of those who reject the truth. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good. |
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