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Titus 1

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Paul’s Greeting to Titus 1:1–4
For the Leaders 1:5–16
Appointing Elders on Crete 1:5–9
Correcting False Teachers 1:10–16

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Paul’s Greeting to Titus 1:1–4
For the Leaders 1:5–16
Appointing Elders on Crete 1:5–9
Correcting False Teachers 1:10–16
In the Household 2:1–15
Teaching Sound Doctrine 2:1–10
God’s Grace Brings Salvation 2:11–15
In the World 3:1–11
Heirs of Grace 3:1–8
Avoid Divisions 3:9–11
Final Remarks and Greetings 3:12–15

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1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,

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2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

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3 In His own time He has made His word evident in the proclamation entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior.

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4 To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

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5 The reason I left you in Crete was that you would set in order what was unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.

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6 An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.

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7 As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.

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8 Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

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9 He must hold firmly to the faithful word as it was taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who contradict it.

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10 For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,

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11 who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.

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12 As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

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13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith

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14 and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.

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15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

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16 They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

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Titus, Epistle to

Was probably written about the same time as the first epistle to Timothy, with which it has many affinities. "Both letters were addressed to persons left by the writer to preside in their respective churches during his absence. Both letters are principally occupied in describing the qualifications to be sought for in those whom they should appoint to offices in the church; and the ingredients of this description are in both letters nearly the same. Timothy and Titus are likewise cautioned against the same prevailing corruptions, and in particular against the same misdirection of their cares and studies. This affinity obtains not only in the subject of the letters, which from the similarity of situation in the persons to whom they were addressed might be expected to be somewhat alike, but extends in a great variety of instances to the phrases and expressions. The writer accosts his two friends with the same salutation, and passes on to the business of his letter by the same transition (comp. 1 Tim. 1:2, 3 with Titus 1:4, 5; 1 Tim. 1:4 with Titus 1:13, 14; 3:9; 1 Tim. 4:12 with Titus 2:7, 15).", Paley's Horae Paulinae. The date of its composition may be concluded from the circumstance that it was written after Paul's visit to Crete (Titus 1:5). That visit could not be the one referred to in Acts 27:7, when Paul was on his voyage to Rome as a prisoner, and where he continued a prisoner for two years. We may warrantably suppose that after his release Paul sailed from Rome into Asia and took Crete by the way, and that there he left Titus "to set in order the things that were wanting." Thence he went to Ephesus, where he left Timothy, and from Ephesus to Macedonia, where he wrote First Timothy, and thence to Nicopolis in Epirus, from which place he wrote to Titus, about A.D. 66 or 67. In the subscription to the epistle it is said to have been written from "Nicopolis of Macedonia," but no such place is known. The subscriptions to the epistles are of no authority, as they are not authentic.

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