The New Testament
of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
1865 by American Bible Union

Titus Chapter 1

Tit 1:1 PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of God's chosen, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness;
Tit 1:2 upon hope of eternal life, which God, who can not lie, promised before eternal ages,
Tit 1:3 but in its own times manifested his word in the preaching, with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of our Savior God;
Tit 1:4 to Titus, a true child according to the common faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
Tit 1:5 For this cause I left thee behind in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and appoint elders in each city, as I directed thee;
Tit 1:6 if any one is without reproach, the husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of rioting or unruly.
Tit 1:7 For the overseer must be, without reproach, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of gain;
Tit 1:8 but hospitable, a lover of the good, discreet, just, holy, temperate;
Tit 1:9 holding fast the faithful word according to the teaching, that he may be able with the sound teaching both to exhort, and to refute the gainsayers.
Tit 1:10 For there are many unruly vain talkers and deceivers, chiefly they of the circumcision;
Tit 1:11 whose mouths must be stopped, who overturn whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.
Tit 1:12 One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said: Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.
Tit 1:13 This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
Tit 1:14 not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, who turn away from the truth.
Tit 1:15 To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and conscience are defiled.
Tit 1:16 They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and for every good work reprobate.