Ch. I.
1 Paul a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus
Christ, for promoting the faith of God's chosen
people, and the knowledge of the truth which is
according to godliness:
2 in hope of eternal life, which
God, who cannot lie, promised before note all ages;
3 and
hath in his own times manifested his word, by the
preaching, with which I was intrusted according to the
commandment of God our Saviour:
4 to Titus my note son
note in the common faith, grace, mercy, and peace from
God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
5 For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest
set in order what remained, and ordain elders in
every city as I directed thee:
6 to wit, if any one be
blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful
children, not accused of debauchery, or unruly.
7 For
a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God, not
self-willed, not passionate, not given to wine, no
striker, not greedy of sordid gain:
8 but hospitable, note benevolent,
sober, just, holy, temperate;
9 holding fast
the faithful word, according as he hath been taught,
that he may be able both to note instruct in sound doctrine,
and to convince gainsayers.
10 For there are many disorderly persons, vain-talkers
and deceivers note, especially those of the circumcision;
whose mouths must be stopped:
11 who subvert whole
families, teaching what they ought not, for note shameful
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gain:
12 as said one note of themselves, a prophet of their
own, “The Cretans are always liars, mischievous
beasts, sluggish note gluttons.”
13 This testimony is true:
for which cause rebuke them sharply, that they may be
found in the faith;
14 not attending to Jewish fables, and
the precepts of men who turn away from the truth.
15 To
the pure indeed all things are pure; but to the polluted
and unbelieving nothing is pure; note even their mind
and conscience is polluted.
16 They profess to know God,
but in works deny Him, being abominable and disobedient,
and to every note thing that is good void of note understanding.
Worsley [1770], THE NEW TESTAMENT OR NEW COVENANT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated from the Greek ACCORDING TO The Present Idiom of the English Tongue. With NOTES and REFERENCES interspersed, as occasion required, to confirm and illustrate the more literal or various Renderings given at the bottom of each page; by which even they, who do not understand the Original, may often judge for themselves of the justness and propriety of the Translation. By the late Mr. JOHN WORSLEY, of Hertford (Printed by R. Hett, LONDON) [word count] [B18100].
