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Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
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And the Lord shall deliver
me from every evil work, and will preserve
me
unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom
be
glory for
ever and ever. Amen.
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Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
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Erastus abode at Corinth: but
Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.
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Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth
thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
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The Lord Jesus Christ
be
with thy spirit. Grace
be
with you. Amen.
The Epistle of Paul 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;
2
In hope of eternal life, which God, that
cannot lie, promised before the world began;
3
But hath in due times manifested his word through
preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
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.
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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If any be blameless, the husband of one
wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
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;
8
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
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.
10
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially
they of the circumcision:
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Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching
things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
12
One of themselves,
even
a prophet of their
own, said, The Cretians
are
alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
13
This witness is true. Wherefore
rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
14
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and
commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
15
Unto 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.
16
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny
him,
being abominable, and disobedient,
and unto every good work reprobate.
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