English Bible Presentation Sharing - Titus Book, chapter 1, verse 15 in Litv Version

Titus 1 : 1 (LITV)

Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of the elect of God and full knowledge of the truth according to godliness,

Titus 1 : 2 (LITV)

on hope of eternal life which the God who does not lie promised before the eternal times,

Titus 1 : 3 (LITV)

but revealed in its own times in a proclamation of His Word, with which I was entrusted by the command of our Savior God;

Titus 1 : 4 (LITV)

to Titus, a true child according to our common faith: Grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

Titus 1 : 5 (LITV)

For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might set in order the things lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I ordered you:

Titus 1 : 6 (LITV)

If anyone is blameless, husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of loose behavior, or disobedient,

Titus 1 : 7 (LITV)

(for the overseer must be blameless as a steward of God), not self-pleasing, not prone to anger, not given to wine, not a quarreler, not greedy of ill gain;

Titus 1 : 8 (LITV)

but hospitable, a lover of good, discreet, just, holy, temperate,

Titus 1 : 9 (LITV)

clinging to the faithful Word according to the teaching, that he may be able both to encourage by sound doctrine and to convict the ones contradicting.

Titus 1 : 10 (LITV)

For there are indeed many insubordinate men, empty talkers and mind-deluders, especially those of the circumcision,

Titus 1 : 11 (LITV)

whose mouth you must stop, who overturn whole houses, teaching things which they ought not for the sake of ill gain.

Titus 1 : 12 (LITV)

One of them, a prophet of their own, said: Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.

Titus 1 : 13 (LITV)

This testimony is true; for which cause convict them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,

Titus 1 : 14 (LITV)

not listening to Jewish myths and commandments of men, having turned away from the truth.

Titus 1 : 15 (LITV)

Truly, all things are pure to the pure, but to the ones being defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but even their mind and conscience has been defiled.

Titus 1 : 16 (LITV)

They profess to know God, but by their works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and worthless to every good work.