Titus 1:3-11
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3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
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4 To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
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5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
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6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
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7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
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8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
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9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
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10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
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11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.