{"id":2155,"date":"2014-11-03T02:21:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T02:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/tit01\/"},"modified":"2020-03-10T10:05:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T14:05:29","slug":"tit01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/tit01\/","title":{"rendered":"Titus 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main\">\r\n<div class=\"mt\">The Epistle of Paul to Titus <\/div> <div class=\"chapterlabel\"><a name=\"V0\"> 1<\/a><\/div><div class=\"p\">\r\n <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V1\">1\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God\u2019s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V2\">2\u00a0<\/a><\/span>In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V3\">3\u00a0<\/a><\/span>But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V4\">4\u00a0<\/a><\/span>To Titus, <span class=\"add\">mine<\/span> own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, <span class=\"add\">and<\/span> peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V5\">5\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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:  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V6\">6\u00a0<\/a><\/span>If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V7\">7\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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;  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V8\">8\u00a0<\/a><\/span>But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V9\">9\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V10\">10\u00a0<\/a><\/span>For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V11\">11\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre\u2019s sake.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V12\">12\u00a0<\/a><\/span>One of themselves, <span class=\"add\">even<\/span> a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians <span class=\"add\">are<\/span> alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V13\">13\u00a0<\/a><\/span>This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V14\">14\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V15\">15\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Unto the pure all things <span class=\"add\">are<\/span> pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V16\">16\u00a0<\/a><\/span>They profess that they know God; but in works they deny <span class=\"add\">him,<\/span> being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. <\/div><hr \/><\/div>\r\n\r\n  <div class=\"chapters\">\r\n    <h3>Titus Chapters<\/h3>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/tit01\">1<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/tit02\">2<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/tit03\">3<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Epistle of Paul to Titus 1 1\u00a0Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God\u2019s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; 2\u00a0In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; 3\u00a0But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour; 4\u00a0To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. 5\u00a0For 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: 6\u00a0If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. 7\u00a0For 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\u00a0But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; 9\u00a0Holding 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\u00a0For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: 11\u00a0Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre\u2019s sake. 12\u00a0One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. 13\u00a0This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; 14\u00a0Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. 15\u00a0Unto the pure all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newconvenant","tag-titus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4246,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/4246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}