English Bible Presentation Sharing - Titus Book, chapter 1, verse 7 in Mkjv Version

Titus 1 : 1 (MKJV)

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ (according to the faith of God's elect, in the acknowledging of the truth which is according to godliness

Titus 1 : 2 (MKJV)

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

Titus 1 : 3 (MKJV)

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

Titus 1 : 4 (MKJV)

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

Titus 1 : 5 (MKJV)

For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you,

Titus 1 : 6 (MKJV)

if anyone is blameless, husband of one wife, having believing children, not accused of loose behavior, or disobedient.

Titus 1 : 7 (MKJV)

For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not full of passion, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain;

Titus 1 : 8 (MKJV)

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

Titus 1 : 9 (MKJV)

holding fast the faithful Word according to the doctrine, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict the gainsayers.

Titus 1 : 10 (MKJV)

For there are indeed many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Titus 1 : 11 (MKJV)

whose mouth you must stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things not right for the sake of ill gain.

Titus 1 : 12 (MKJV)

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

Titus 1 : 13 (MKJV)

This witness is true; for which cause convict them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith,

Titus 1 : 14 (MKJV)

not giving heed to Jewish myths and commandments of men, turning away from the truth.

Titus 1 : 15 (MKJV)

To the pure all things are pure. But to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Titus 1 : 16 (MKJV)

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