NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 5

Titus 1:5

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I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you—

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Titus 1:2–8

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in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

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but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,

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

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I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you—

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if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

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For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

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but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

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