Worsley Version
1770 by John Worsley

Titus Chapter 1

Tit 1:1 Paul a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for promoting the faith of God's chosen people, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness:
Tit 1:2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before all ages;
Tit 1:3 and hath in his own times manifested his word, by the preaching, with which I was intrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour:
Tit 1:4 to Titus my son in the common faith, grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Tit 1:5 For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest set in order what remained, and ordain elders in every city as I directed thee:
Tit 1:6 to wit, if any one be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of debauchery, or unruly.
Tit 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God, not self-willed, not passionate, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain:
Tit 1:8 but hospitable, benevolent, sober, just, holy, temperate;
Tit 1:9 holding fast the faithful word, according as he hath been taught, that he may be able both to instruct in sound doctrine, and to convince gainsayers.
Tit 1:10 For there are many disorderly persons, vain-talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision; whose mouths must be stopped:
Tit 1:11 who subvert whole families, teaching what they ought not, for shameful gain:
Tit 1:12 as said one of themselves, a prophet of their own, "The Cretans are always liars, mischievous beasts, sluggish gluttons."
Tit 1:13 This testimony is true: for which cause rebuke them sharply, that they may be found in the faith;
Tit 1:14 not attending to Jewish fables, and the precepts of men who turn away from the truth.
Tit 1:15 To the pure indeed all things are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure; even their mind and conscience is polluted.
Tit 1:16 They profess to know God, but in works deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every thing that is good void of understanding.