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| 1:1 | Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that `is' according to piety, |
| 1:2 | upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages, |
| 1:3 | (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour, |
| 1:4 | to Titus -- true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour! |
| 1:5 | For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee; |
| 1:6 | if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate -- |
| 1:7 | for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre; |
| 1:8 | but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled, |
| 1:9 | holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict; |
| 1:10 | for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision -- |
| 1:11 | whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake. |
| 1:12 | A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said -- `Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!' |
| 1:13 | this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, |
| 1:14 | not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth; |
| 1:15 | all things, indeed, `are' pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast `is' nothing pure, but of them defiled `are' even the mind and the conscience; |
| 1:16 | God they profess to know, and in the works they deny `Him', being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved. |
| 1:1 | Paul the seruaunt of God and an Apostle of Iesu Christ to preache the fayth of goddis electe and ye knowledge of that trueth which is after godlynes |
| 1:2 | vpon the hope of eternall lyfe which lyfe God that cannot lye hath promised before the worlde begane: |
| 1:3 | but hath opened his worde at ye tyme apoynted thorow preachynge which preachynge is committed vnto me by the commaundement of god oure saveoure. |
| 1:4 | To Titus his naturall sonne in the commen fayth.Grace mercie and peace from God the father and from the lord Iesu Christ oure saveoure. |
| 1:5 | For this cause left I ye in Creta that thou shuldest performe that which was lackynge and shuldest ordeyne elders in every citie as I apoynted the. |
| 1:6 | Yf eny be fautelesse the husbande of one wyfe havynge faythfull childre which are not selandred of royote nether are disobediet. |
| 1:7 | For a bisshoppe must be fautelesse as it be commeth the minister of God: not stubborne not angrye no dronkarde no fyghter not geven to filthy lucre: |
| 1:8 | but herberous one that loveth goodnes sobre mynded righteous holy temperat |
| 1:9 | and suche as cleveth vnto the true worde of doctryne that he maye be able to exhorte with wholsom learnynge and to improve them that saye agaynst it. |
| 1:10 | For ther are many disobedient and talkers of vanite and disceavers of myndes namely they of the circumcisio |
| 1:11 | whose mouthes must be stopped which pervert whole houses teachinge thinges which they ought not because of filthy lucre. |
| 1:12 | One beynge of the selves which was a poyet of their awne sayde: The Cretayns are all wayes lyars evyll beastes and slowe belies. |
| 1:13 | This witnes is true wherfore rebuke them sharply that they maye be sounde in the fayth |
| 1:14 | and not takynge hede to Iewes fables and commaudmentes of men that turne from the trueth. |
| 1:15 | Vnto the pure are all thynges pure: but vnto them that are defiled and vnbelevynge is nothynge pure: but even the very myndes and consciences of them are defiled. |
| 1:16 | They confesse that they knowe god: but with the dedes they denye hym and are abhominable and disobedient and vnto all good workes discommendable. |
| 1:1 | Pavl the seruaunt of God, and an Apostle off Iesus Christ, to preach the faith off Gods electe, and the knowlege of ye trueth, which ledeth vnto godlynes, |
| 1:2 | vpon the hope of eternall life: which God that can not lye hath promysed before the tymes of the worlde: |
| 1:3 | but at his tyme hath opened his worde thorow preachinge, which is commytted vnto me acordinge to the commaundemet of God oure Sauioure. |
| 1:4 | Vnto Titus my naturall sonne after ye comen faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the father, and fro the LORDE Iesu Christ oure Sauioure. |
| 1:5 | For this cause left I the in Creta, that thou shuldest perfourme that which was lackynge, and shuldest ordeyne Elders in euery cite, as I appoynted ye. |
| 1:6 | Yf eny be blamelesse, the hussbande of one wife, hauynge faithfull children, which are not slaundred or ryote, nether are dishobedient. |
| 1:7 | For a Bisshoppe must be blamelesse, as the stewarde of God: not wylfull, not angrye, not geuen vnto moch wyne, no fyghter, not gredye of filthye lucre: |
| 1:8 | but harbarous, one that loueth goodnes, sober mynded, righteous, holy, temperate, |
| 1:9 | and soch one as cleueth vnto the true worde of doctryne: that he maye be able to exhorte with wholsome lernynge, & to improue them that saye agaynst it. |
| 1:10 | For there are many dishobedient, and talkers of vanite, and disceauers of myndes: namely they of the circucision, |
| 1:11 | whose mouthes must be stopped: which peruerte whole houses, teachinge thinges which they oughte not, because of filthye lucre. |
| 1:12 | One of them selues euen their awne prophet, sayde: The Cretayns are alwayes lyars, euell beestes, and slowe belies. |
| 1:13 | This witnesse is true. Wherfore rebuke them sharply, yt they maye be sounde in the faith, |
| 1:14 | and not to take hede vnto Iewes fables and commaundementes of men, which turne them awaye from the trueth. |
| 1:15 | Vnto ye cleane are all thinges cleane: but. to the vncleane & vnbeleuers, there is nothinge cleane, but both their mynde & conscience is defyled. |
| 1:16 | They saye that they knowe God, but with the dedes they denye him: for so moch as they are abhominable and dishobedient, and vnmete to all good workes. |
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