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\h TITUS
\toc1 TITUS
\toc2 Titus
\toc3 TIT
\mt1 TITUS
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\cl CHAPTER 1
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\v 1 Paul, the servant of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ, by the faith of the chosen of God, and by the knowing of the truth, which is after piety,
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\v 2 into the hope of everlasting life, which \em life\em* God that lieth not, promised before times of the world;
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\v 3 but he hath showed in his times his word in preaching, that is betaken to me, by the commandment of God, our Saviour,
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\v 4 to Titus, most dearworthy \add [or beloved]\add* son, by the common faith, grace and peace of God the Father, and of Christ Jesus, our Saviour.
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\v 5 For cause of this thing I left thee at Crete, that thou amend those things that fail, and ordain priests by cities, as also I assigned to thee.
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\v 6 If any man is without crime, \add [or great sin]\add*, an husband of one wife, and hath faithful sons, not in accusation of lechery, or not subject.
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\v 7 For it behooveth a bishop to be without crime, \add [as]\add* a dispenser of God, not proud, not wrathful, not given to drunkenness, not \add [a]\add* smiter, not covetous of foul winning;
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\v 8 but holding hospitality, benign, prudent, sober, just, holy, continent,
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\v 9 taking \add [or embracing]\add* that true word, that is after doctrine; that he be mighty to admonish in wholesome teaching \add [or doctrine]\add*, and to reprove them that gainsay.
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\v 10 For there be many unobedient, and vain speakers, and deceivers, most they that be of circumcision,
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\v 11 which it behooveth to be reproved; which subvert all houses, teaching which things it behooveth not, for \add [the]\add* love of foul winning.
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\v 12 And one of them, their proper prophet said, Men of Crete \em be\em* ever more liars, evil beasts, of slow womb.
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\v 13 This witnessing is true. For which cause blame them sore, that they be whole in faith,
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\v 14 not giving attention to fables of Jews, and to commandments of men, that turn away them \add [or turn them away]\add* from truth.
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\v 15 And all things be clean to clean men; but to unclean men and to unfaithful, nothing is clean, for the soul and conscience of them be made unclean.
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\v 16 They acknowledge that they know God, but by deeds they deny \add [him]\add*; when they be abominable, and unbelieveful, and reprovable to all good work.
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\cl CHAPTER 2
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\v 1 But speak thou those things that beseem \add [or that become]\add* wholesome teaching;
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\v 2 that old men be sober, chaste, prudent, whole in faith, in love, and patience;
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\v 3 also old women in holy habit, not slanderers \add [or backbiters]\add*, not serving much to wine, well-teaching, that they teach prudence.
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\v 4 \em Admonish thou\em* young women, that they love their husbands, that they love their children;
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\v 5 and that they be prudent, chaste, sober, having care of the house, benign, subject to their husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
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\v 6 Also admonish young men, that they be sober.
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\v 7 In all things give thyself ensample of good works, in teaching, in wholeness \add [or in holiness of living]\add*, \em that is, in cleanness of soul and body\em*, in firmness \add [of virtues]\add*.
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\v 8 An wholesome word, and unreprovable; that he that is of the contrary side, be ashamed, having none evil thing to say of you.
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\v 9 \em Admonish thou\em* servants to be subject to their lords; in all things pleasing, not gainsaying,
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\v 10 not defrauding, but in all things showing good faith, that they honour in all things the doctrine of God, our Saviour.
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\v 11 For the grace of God, our Saviour, hath appeared to all men,
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\v 12 and taught us, that we forsake wickedness \add [or unpiety]\add*, and worldly desires, and live soberly, and justly, and piously in this world,
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\v 13 abiding the blessed hope and the coming of the glory of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
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\v 14 that gave himself for us, to again-buy us from all wickedness, and make clean to himself a people acceptable, and pursuer of good works.
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\v 15 Speak thou these things, and admonish thou, and reprove thou with all commandment; no man despise thee.
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\cl CHAPTER 3
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\v 1 Admonish them to be subjects \add [or to be subject]\add* to princes, and to powers; to obey to that that is said, and to be ready to all good work;
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\v 2 to blaspheme no man, to be not full of chiding, but temperate \add [or patient]\add*, showing all mildness to all men.
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\v 3 For we were sometime unwise, unbelieveful, erring, and serving to desires, and to diverse lusts, doing in malice and envy, worthy to be hated, hating each other.
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\v 4 But when the benignity and the manhood \add [or the humanity]\add* of our Saviour God appeared,
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\v 5 not of works of rightwiseness that we did, but by his mercy he made us safe, by \add [the]\add* washing, \add [or baptism]\add*, of again-begetting, and again-newing of the Holy Ghost,
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\v 6 whom he shedded \add [out]\add* into us plenteously by Jesus Christ, our Saviour,
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\v 7 that we justified by his grace, be heirs by hope of everlasting life.
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\v 8 A true word is \add [this]\add*, and of these things I will that thou confirm others, that they that believe in God, be busy to be above \add [or to be before]\add* others in good works. These things be good, and profitable to men.
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\v 9 And eschew thou foolish questions, and genealogies, and strivings \add [or strives]\add*, and fightings of the law; for those be unprofitable and vain.
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\v 10 Eschew \add [or Shun]\add* thou a man heretic, after one and the second correction;
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\v 11 witting that he that is such a manner \em man\em* is subverted, and trespasseth, and is condemned by his own doom.
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\v 12 When I send to thee Artemas, or Tychicus, hie thou \add [or haste]\add* to come to me to Nicopolis; for I have purposed to dwell in winter there.
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\v 13 Busily before send \add [or send before]\add* Zenas, a wise man of law, and Apollos, that nothing fail to them.
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\v 14 They that be of ours, learn to be governors \add [or to be before]\add* in good works, to necessary uses, that they be not without fruit.
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\v 15 All men that be with me greet thee well. Greet thou well them, that love us in \add [the]\add* faith. The grace of God \em be\em* with you all. Amen.
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