Tit Titus, chapter Epistle to Titus, chapter 1
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; 1Ti 3:16In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; Num 23:19; Rom 16:25But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour; Gal 1:15; Eph 3:8; Col 1:28; 2Ti 1:11To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
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: If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. 1Ti 3:4For 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; Lev 10:9; 1Ti 3:3But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; 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. 1Ti 6:3For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Rom 16:17Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. Mat 15:9; Mrk 7:7; 1Ti 1:4Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. Mat 15:11; Rom 14:14They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.2Ti 3:5