| The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000. |
The Epistle of Paul to |
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Salutation |
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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;
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in hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
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but hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
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¶ To Titus, 2 Cor. 8.23 · Gal. 2.3 · 2 Tim. 4.10 mine own son after the common faith:
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Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
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Qualifications of Elders and Bishops |
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¶ 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.
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For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
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but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
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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. 1 Tim. 3.2-7
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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.
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One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
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This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
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not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
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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.
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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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