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Greeting

Paul, a servanta of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,

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Paul, 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 —

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in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages beganb

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in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,

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and at the proper time manifested in his wordc through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;

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and which now at his appointed season he has brought to light through the preaching entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior,

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To Titus, my true child in a common faith:
Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

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To Titus, my true son in our common faith:
Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

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Qualifications for Elders

This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you —

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Appointing Elders Who Love What Is Good

The reason I left you in Crete was that you might put in order what was left unfinished and appointa elders in every town, as I directed you.

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if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife,d and his children are believerse and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

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An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believeb and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.

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For an overseer,f as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,

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Since 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.

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but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

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Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.

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He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in soundg doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

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He 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.

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For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.h

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Rebuking Those Who Fail to Do Good

For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group.

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They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.

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They 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.

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One of the Cretans,i a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”j

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One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”c

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This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

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This saying is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith

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not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.

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and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth.

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To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

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To 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.

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They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

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They 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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