* BOOK56 TITUS
= CHAPTER 1 
# 1 PAUL, A SERVANT OF GOD, AND AN APOSTLE OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO THE
 FAITH OF GODS ELECT, AND THE ACKNOWLEDGING OF THE TRUTH WHICH IS AFTER
 GODLINESS;
# 2 IN HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE, WHICH GOD, THAT CANNOT LIE, PROMISED BEFORE THE
 WORLD BEGAN;
# 3 BUT HATH IN DUE TIMES MANIFESTED HIS WORD THROUGH PREACHING, WHICH IS
 COMMITTED UNTO ME ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD OUR SAVIOUR;
# 4 TO TITUS, MINE OWN SON AFTER THE COMMON FAITH: GRACE, MERCY, AND PEACE,
 FROM GOD THE FATHER AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOUR.
# 5 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:
# 6 IF ANY BE BLAMELESS, THE HUSBAND OF ONE WIFE, HAVING FAITHFUL CHILDREN
 NOT ACCUSED OF RIOT OR UNRULY.
# 7 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;
# 8 BUT A LOVER OF HOSPITALITY, A LOVER OF GOOD MEN, SOBER, JUST, HOLY,
 TEMPERATE;
# 9 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.
# 10 FOR THERE ARE MANY UNRULY AND VAIN TALKERS AND DECEIVERS, SPECIALLY THEY
 OF THE CIRCUMCISION:
# 11 WHOSE MOUTHS MUST BE STOPPED, WHO SUBVERT WHOLE HOUSES, TEACHING THINGS
 WHICH THEY OUGHT NOT, FOR FILTHY LUCRES SAKE.
# 12 ONE OF THEMSELVES, EVEN A PROPHET OF THEIR OWN, SAID, THE CRETIANS ARE
 ALWAY LIARS, EVIL BEASTS, SLOW BELLIES.
# 13 THIS WITNESS IS TRUE. WHEREFORE REBUKE THEM SHARPLY, THAT THEY MAY BE
 SOUND IN THE FAITH;
# 14 NOT GIVING HEED TO JEWISH FABLES, AND COMMANDMENTS OF MEN, THAT TURN
 FROM THE TRUTH.
# 15 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.
# 16 THEY PROFESS THAT THEY KNOW GOD; BUT IN WORKS THEY DENY HIM, BEING
 ABOMINABLE, AND DISOBEDIENT, AND UNTO EVERY GOOD WORK REPROBATE.
= CHAPTER 2 
# 1 BUT SPEAK THOU THE THINGS WHICH BECOME SOUND DOCTRINE:
# 2 THAT THE AGED MEN BE SOBER, GRAVE, TEMPERATE, SOUND IN FAITH, IN CHARITY,
 IN PATIENCE.
# 3 THE AGED WOMEN LIKEWISE, THAT THEY BE IN BEHAVIOUR AS BECOMETH HOLINESS,
 NOT FALSE ACCUSERS, NOT GIVEN TO MUCH WINE, TEACHERS OF GOOD THINGS;
# 4 THAT THEY MAY TEACH THE YOUNG WOMEN TO BE SOBER, TO LOVE THEIR HUSBANDS,
 TO LOVE THEIR CHILDREN,
# 5 TO BE DISCREET, CHASTE, KEEPERS AT HOME, GOOD, OBEDIENT TO THEIR OWN
 HUSBANDS, THAT THE WORD OF GOD BE NOT BLASPHEMED.
# 6 YOUNG MEN LIKEWISE EXHORT TO BE SOBER MINDED.
# 7 IN ALL THINGS SHEWING THYSELF A PATTERN OF GOOD WORKS: IN DOCTRINE
 SHEWING UNCORRUPTNESS, GRAVITY, SINCERITY,
# 8 SOUND SPEECH, THAT CANNOT BE CONDEMNED; THAT HE THAT IS OF THE CONTRARY
 PART MAY BE ASHAMED, HAVING NO EVIL THING TO SAY OF YOU.
# 9 EXHORT SERVANTS TO BE OBEDIENT UNTO THEIR OWN MASTERS, AND TO PLEASE THEM
 WELL IN ALL THINGS; NOT ANSWERING AGAIN;
# 10 NOT PURLOINING, BUT SHEWING ALL GOOD FIDELITY; THAT THEY MAY ADORN THE
 DOCTRINE OF GOD OUR SAVIOUR IN ALL THINGS.
# 11 FOR THE GRACE OF GOD THAT BRINGETH SALVATION HATH APPEARED TO ALL MEN,
# 12 TEACHING US THAT, DENYING UNGODLINESS AND WORLDLY LUSTS, WE SHOULD LIVE
 SOBERLY, RIGHTEOUSLY, AND GODLY, IN THIS PRESENT WORLD;
# 13 LOOKING FOR THAT BLESSED HOPE, AND THE GLORIOUS APPEARING OF THE GREAT
 GOD AND OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST;
# 14 WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US, THAT HE MIGHT REDEEM US FROM ALL INIQUITY, AND
 PURIFY UNTO HIMSELF A PECULIAR PEOPLE, ZEALOUS OF GOOD WORKS.
# 15 THESE THINGS SPEAK, AND EXHORT, AND REBUKE WITH ALL AUTHORITY. LET NO
 MAN DESPISE THEE.
= CHAPTER 3 
# 1 PUT THEM IN MIND TO BE SUBJECT TO PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS, TO OBEY
 MAGISTRATES, TO BE READY TO EVERY GOOD WORK,
# 2 TO SPEAK EVIL OF NO MAN, TO BE NO BRAWLERS, BUT GENTLE, SHEWING ALL
 MEEKNESS UNTO ALL MEN.
# 3 FOR WE OURSELVES ALSO WERE SOMETIMES FOOLISH, DISOBEDIENT, DECEIVED,
 SERVING DIVERS LUSTS AND PLEASURES, LIVING IN MALICE AND ENVY, HATEFUL, AND
 HATING ONE ANOTHER.
# 4 BUT AFTER THAT THE KINDNESS AND LOVE OF GOD OUR SAVIOUR TOWARD MAN
 APPEARED,
# 5 NOT BY WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH WE HAVE DONE, BUT ACCORDING TO HIS
 MERCY HE SAVED US, BY THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND RENEWING OF THE HOLY
 GHOST;
# 6 WHICH HE SHED ON US ABUNDANTLY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOUR;
# 7 THAT BEING JUSTIFIED BY HIS GRACE, WE SHOULD BE MADE HEIRS ACCORDING TO
 THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE.
# 8 THIS IS A FAITHFUL SAYING, AND THESE THINGS I WILL THAT THOU AFFIRM
 CONSTANTLY, THAT THEY WHICH HAVE BELIEVED IN GOD MIGHT BE CAREFUL TO MAINTAIN
 GOOD WORKS. THESE THINGS ARE GOOD AND PROFITABLE UNTO MEN.
# 9 BUT AVOID FOOLISH QUESTIONS, AND GENEALOGIES, AND CONTENTIONS, AND
 STRIVINGS ABOUT THE LAW; FOR THEY ARE UNPROFITABLE AND VAIN.
# 10 A MAN THAT IS AN HERETICK AFTER THE FIRST AND SECOND ADMONITION REJECT;
# 11 KNOWING THAT HE THAT IS SUCH IS SUBVERTED, AND SINNETH, BEING CONDEMNED
 OF HIMSELF.
# 12 WHEN I SHALL SEND ARTEMAS UNTO THEE, OR TYCHICUS, BE DILIGENT TO COME
 UNTO ME TO NICOPOLIS: FOR I HAVE DETERMINED THERE TO WINTER.
# 13 BRING ZENAS THE LAWYER AND APOLLOS ON THEIR JOURNEY DILIGENTLY, THAT
 NOTHING BE WANTING UNTO THEM.
# 14 AND LET OURS ALSO LEARN TO MAINTAIN GOOD WORKS FOR NECESSARY USES, THAT
 THEY BE NOT UNFRUITFUL.
# 15 ALL THAT ARE WITH ME SALUTE THEE. GREET THEM THAT LOVE US IN THE FAITH.
 GRACE BE WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.
