Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/masters/texts/darby.lzh/TIT.LZH/TIT

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1:1 Paul, bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ according
 to [the] faith of God's elect, and knowledge of [the] truth
 which [is] according to piety;
1:2 in [the] hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie,
 promised before the ages of time,
1:3 but has manifested in its own due season his word, in [the]
 proclamation with which *I* have been entrusted, according to
 [the] commandment of our Saviour God;
1:4 to Titus, my own child according to [the] faith common [to
 us]: Grace and peace from God [the] Father, and Christ Jesus
 our Saviour.
1:5 For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go
 on to set right what remained [unordered], and establish elders
 in each city, as *I* had ordered thee:
1:6 if any one be free from all charge [against him], husband of
 one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or
 unruly.
1:7 For the overseer must be free from all charge [against him]
 as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not
 disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by
 base means;
1:8 but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious,
 temperate,
1:9 clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine
 taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound
 teaching and refute gainsayers.
1:10 For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and
 deceivers of people's minds, specially those of [the]
 circumcision,
1:11 who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole
 houses, teaching things which ought not [to be taught] for the
 sake of base gain.
1:12 One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said,
 Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.
1:13 This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them
 severely, that they may be sound in the faith,
1:14 not turning [their] minds to Jewish fables and commandments
 of men turning away from the truth.
1:15 All things [are] pure to the pure; but to the defiled and
 unbelieving nothing [is] pure; but both their mind and their
 conscience are defiled.
1:16 They profess to know God, but in works deny [him], being
 abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every
 good work.
2:1 But do *thou* speak the things that become sound teaching;
2:2 that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in
 faith, in love, in patience;
2:3 that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as
 becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not
 slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is
 right;
2:4 that they may admonish the young women to be attached to
 [their] husbands, to be attached to [their] children,
2:5 discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to
 their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken
 of.
2:6 The younger men in like manner exhort to be discreet:
2:7 in all things affording thyself as a pattern of good works;
 in teaching uncorruptedness, gravity,
2:8 a sound word, not to be condemned; that he who is opposed
 may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us:
2:9 bondmen to be subject to their own masters, to make
 themselves acceptable in everything; not gainsaying;
2:10 not robbing [their masters], but shewing all good fidelity,
 that they may adorn the teaching which [is] of our Saviour God
 in all things.
2:11 For the grace of God which carries with it salvation for
 all men has appeared,
2:12 teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts,
 we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present
 course of things,
2:13 awaiting the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our
 great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;
2:14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all
 lawlessness, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous
 for good works.
2:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all
 authority. Let no one despise thee.
3:1 Put them in mind to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to
 be obedient to rule, to be ready to do every good work,
3:2 to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, [to be]
 mild, shewing all meekness towards all men.
3:3 For we were once ourselves also without intelligence,
 disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and
 pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one
 another.
3:4 But when the kindness and love to man of our Saviour God
 appeared,
3:5 not on the principle of works which [have been done] in
 righteousness which *we* had done, but according to his own
 mercy he saved us through [the] washing of regeneration and
 renewal of [the] Holy Spirit,
3:6 which he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our
 Saviour;
3:7 that, having been justified by *his* grace, we should become
 heirs according to [the] hope of eternal life.
3:8 The word [is] faithful, and I desire that thou insist
 strenuously on these things, that they who have believed God
 may take care to pay diligent attention to good works. These
 things are good and profitable to men.
3:9 But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and
 contentions about the law, shun; for they are unprofitable and
 vain.
3:10 An heretical man after a first and second admonition have
 done with,
3:11 knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being
 self-condemned.
3:12 When I shall send Artemas to thee, or Tychicus, use
 diligence to come to me to Nicopolis; for I have decided to
 winter there.
3:13 Zenas the lawyer and Apollos set forward diligently on
 their way, that nothing may be lacking to them;
3:14 and let ours also learn to apply themselves to good works
 for necessary wants, that they may not be unfruitful.
3:15 All with me salute thee. Salute those who love us in [the]
 faith. Grace [be] with you all.