Titus Cross References - JuliaSmith

¹ Paul, servant of God, and sent of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the chosen of God, and the acknowledgment of the truth according to devotion; ² In hope of eternal life, (which God, not false, promised before eternal times; ³ And manifested his word in his own times, in the proclamation, which I was entrusted with according to the command of the Saviour our God;) ⁴ To Titus, genuine child according to the common faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. ⁵ For this I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest rectify things left behind, and set elders in the city, as I directed thee: ⁶ If any be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of licentiousness, or disorderly. ⁷ For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain. ⁸ But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm; ⁹ Holding firmly the faithful word according to instruction, that he may be able also to beseech in sound doctrine, and to refute those opposing. ¹⁰ For many also are disorderly, vain talkers and infatuates, especially they of the circumcision: ¹¹ Who must be restrained, who subvert whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain. ¹² A certain of them said, their own prophet, The Cretians always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies. ¹³ This testimony is true. For this cause reprove them severely, that they may be sound in the faith; ¹⁴ Not holding to Jewish fictions, and commands of men, having turned away from the truth. ¹⁵ All things truly pure to the pure: and to the defiled and unbelieving nothing pure; but also their mind and consciousness are defiled. ¹⁶ They confess to know God; and in works they deny, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work not tried.

⁴⁹ And Aaron and his sons burning incense upon the altar of the burnt-offering, and upon the altar of incense for all the work of the holy of holies, and to expiate for Israel according to all that Moses the servant of God commanded.

²⁶ But ye believe not, for ye are not of my sheep, as I said to you. ²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

⁴⁸ And the nations having rejoiced, honoured the word of the Lord: and they believed, as many as were drawn out for eternal life.

¹ Paul, servant of Jesus Christ, called sent, separated to the good news of God,

¹ Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God being in Corinth, with all holy ones being in the whole of Achaia:

⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God:

¹ Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the holy in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

² That their hearts might be comforted, being joined together in love, and to all the riches of the complete certainty of the understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and the Father, and of Christ;

¹³ And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth: ¹⁴ To which he called you by our good news, to the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ Neither hold to fictions and endless genealogies, which offer questions, rather than the arrangement of God in the faith: ⁵ (And the end of the proclamation is love out of a pure heart, and a good consciousness, and unfeigned faith:

⁴ Who wills all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

¹⁶ And manifestly great is the mystery of devotion: God was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed in the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory.

³ If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion;

²³ And silly and ignorant questions refuse, knowing that they produce strifes.

²⁵ In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;

¹¹ For the grace of God who saves, was manifested to all men, ¹² Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;

³ As his divine power having bestowed upon us all things which for life and devotion, by the knowledge of him having called us by glory and fitness:

¹¹ Therefore all these being dissolved, of what race ought ye to be in holy turning round and devotion,

²³ Every one denying the Son, neither has the Father: he acknowledging the Son, has also the Father.

¹⁹ God is not man, and will he lie? and the son of man, and will he grieve? Did he say, and will he not do? and speak, and will he not establish?

²⁹ And also the glory of Israel will not lie, and he will not lament: for he not a man to lament.

²³ From forever I was knit together, from the beginning, from the first of the earth. ²⁴ In no depths was I begun; in no fountains abundant in waters. ²⁵ Before the mountains were settled; before the hills I had a beginning: ²⁶ Yet he made not the earth and the fields, and the head of the clods of the habitable globe. ²⁷ In his preparing the heavens I was there: in his inscribing a circle upon the face of the deep: ²⁸ In his making firm the clouds from above: in his strengthening the fountains of the deep: ²⁹ In his setting his law to the sea, and the waters shall not pass by his mouth; in his making firm the foundations of the earth: ³⁰ And I shall be near him the builder, and I shall be a delight of day, day, smiling before him in all time ³¹ Smiling in the habitable globe of his earth; and my delight with the sons of man.

³⁴ Then shall the king say to them from his right, Come, the praised of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

⁴⁶ And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: and the just into eternal life.

¹⁷ And he going in the way, one running and having fallen upon his knees, asked him, Good teacher, What shall I do that I might inherit eternal life

³⁰ Except he should receive a hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mother, and children, and fields, with expulsions; and in the time coming eternal life.

¹⁵ That every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life.

³⁹ Search the writings; for ye think in them to have eternal life: and these are they testifying of me.

⁵⁴ He chewing my flesh, and drinking my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁶⁸ Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go away? thou hast the words of eternal life.

²⁸ And I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.

² As thou gavest him the power of all flesh, that every one which thou hast given him, he should give to them eternal life.

²⁴ O Father, those thou hast given me, I will that where I am these also be with me: that they might behold my glory, which thou gavest me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

¹⁸ Known to God are all his works from eternity.

² (Which he before promised by his prophets in the holy writings,)

⁷ To them truly by perseverance of the good work they seek glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

² By whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast upon hope of the glory of God.

⁴ And perseverance, proof; and proof, hope.

²¹ That as sin reigned in death, so grace might reign by justice to life eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

²³ For the purchasing the provisions of sin, death; and the grace of God, life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁵ And to him being able to support you according to my good news, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent from eternal times,

²⁷ To whom God would make known what the riches of the glory of this mystery in the nations; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

¹⁵ They also having slain the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and having driven you out; and not pleasing God, and opposite to all men;

⁸ And we, being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the coat of mail of faith and love; and a helmet, the hope of salvation.

¹² Contend earnestly the good contest of faith, take hold upon eternal life, into which thou wert also called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

¹⁹ Treasuring up to themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold upon eternal life.

¹ Paul, the sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

⁹ Who having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, given us in Christ Jesus before eternal times,

¹⁰ For this I endure all things for the chosen, that they also might attain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

¹³ If we believe not, he remains faithful: he cannot deny himself.

¹⁵ Be earnest to present thyself acceptable to God, a worker without shame, dividing rightly the word of truth.

⁷ Concerning all things hold thyself a type of good works: in doctrine, integrity, gravity, incorruptibility,

¹³ Expecting the blessed hope, and apppearance of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

⁷ That justified by his grace, we might be heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

¹⁷ In which God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the firmness of his counsel, he intervened by an oath: ¹⁸ That by two unalterable deeds, in which it is impossible for God to deceive we might have a strong consolation, taking refuge in holding firmly the hope set before:

³ Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, kept in the heavens for us,

²⁰ Known truly before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in the last times for you, ²¹ Who by him believing in God, having raised him from the dead, and having given him glory; that your faith and hope should be in God. ²² Having purified your souls in the hearing of the truth by the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, out of pure hearts love ye one another cordially: ²³ Begotten again, not of corrupted seed, but uncorrupted, by the word of God, living and remaining forever.

²⁵ And this is the promise which he promised us, eternal life.

² Dearly beloved, now are we the children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we shall be: and we know that, if he be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. ³ And every one having this hope in him purifies himself, as he himself is pure.

¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² He having the Son has life; and he not having the Son of God has not life. ¹³ These I wrote to you believing in the name of the Son of God; ye might know that ye have etrnal life, and that ye might believe in the name of the Son of God.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, and we know him true, and we are in him true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

²¹ Keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life,

⁸ And all they dwelling upon earth shall worship him, whose names have not been written in the book of life of the slain Lamb from the foundation of the world.

⁸ The wild beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up from the abyss, and go forward to perdition: and they dwelling upon the earth shall wonder, whose names have not been written upon the book of life from the foundation of the world, seeing the wild beast that was, and is not, although he is.

² Behold God my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid: for my strength and song is Jah Jehovah, and he will be to me for salvation.

¹⁵ Surely thou art God hiding thyself, the God of Israel, the Saviour.

²¹ Announce ye, and bring near; also ye shall take counsel together: who caused this to be heard from of old, from then announcing it? was it not I Jehovah? and no God more beside me; a just God and Saviour; none beside me.

²³ And in the latter state of their kingdom as those transgressing being completed, a king strong of face and understanding enigmas, shall stand up.

²⁴ Seventy seventy were divided upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to expiate iniquity, and to bring in eternal justice, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the holy of holies.

²⁷ And they two kings, their heart for doing evil, and at one table they will speak falsehood; and it shall not prosper: for yet the end at the appointment

³ For yet the vision for the appointment, and it shall breathe to the end, and it shall not lie: if it shall delay, wait for it; for coming, it will come; and it shall not delay.

¹⁰ And the good news must first be proclaimed to all nations.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Having gone into all the world proclaim the good news to all creation.

⁴⁷ And my Spirit rejoiced in God my Saviour.

³⁶ The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, announcing good news, peace through Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all.)

²⁶ And he made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having limited the times before arranged, and the bounds of their habitation;

⁶ For yet Christ, we being weak, Recording to the time died for the impious.

¹⁴ How then shall they call upon whom they believed not? and how shall they believe whom they heard not? and how shall they hear without him proclaiming? ¹⁵ And how shall they proclaim, except they be sent? as has been written, How beautiful the feet of them announcing good news, peace, of them announcing good things!

¹⁹ By power of signs and wonders, by power of the Spirit of God, so that I from Jerusalem, and round about even to Illyricum, have completed the good news of Christ.

²⁶ And now made manifest, also by the prophetic writings according to the command of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith made known to all nations:

¹⁷ For if of free will I do this, I have reward: and if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

⁴ And when the completion of the time was come, God sent his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

¹⁰ For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him:

¹⁷ And having come, he announced good news, peace to you afar off, and to those near.

⁵ Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit: ⁶ For the nations to be co-heirs, and united in one body, and, participators of his solemn promise in Christ by the good news: ⁷ Of which I Became a servant, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me according to the energy of his power ⁸ To me, the least of all the holy ones, was this grace given, to announce the good news in the nations, the untraceable riches of Christ.

¹³ So that my bonds in Christ were manifest in the whole pretorium, and to all the rest;

⁶ Being present to you as also in all the world; and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth:

²³ If indeed ye remain in the faith, founded and firmly fixed, and not moved aside from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I Paul was a servant;

⁴ But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:

¹ Paul, the sent of Jesus Christ according to the command of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, our hope;

¹¹ According to the good news of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted.

³ For this good and acceptable before our Saviour God;

⁵ For one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus; ⁶ Having given himself a ransom for all, a testimony in his own time. ⁷ For which I was placed a herald, and the sent, (I speak truth in Christ, I lie not;) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth.

¹⁰ For, for this also we are wearied and reproached, that we have hoped in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, chiefly of the faithful.

¹⁰ And now made manifest by the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, having truly left death unemployed, and having brought life and immortality to light by the good news: ¹¹ To which I was set a herald, and sent, teacher of the nations.

¹⁰ Not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the doctrine of the Saviour our God in all things.

⁴ And when the kindness and philanthropy of our Saviour God was made evident, ⁵ Not of works in justice which we did; but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renovation of the Holy Spirit; ⁶ Which he poured out upon us richly by Jesus Christ our Saviour;

¹⁶ And he sitting upon the cloud cast his sickle upon the earth; and the earth was reaped.

¹¹ For this day a Saviour was born to you, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David.

⁴² And they said to the woman, That we no more believe for thy speaking: for we ourselves have heard and know, that this is truly Christ, the Saviour of the world.

⁷ To all being in Rome, beloved of God, called holy: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² And this is, to be comforted together in you by the faith in one another both of you and of me.

¹³ I have had no relaxation to my spirit, in my not finding Titus my brother: but having taken leave of them, I went out to Macedonia.

¹³ And having the same spirit of faith, according to that written, I believed, therefore I spake: and we believe, and therefore we speak;

⁶ But God, comforting the humble, comforted us in the arrival of Titus;

¹³ Therefore have we been comforted in your comfort: and we rejoiced more abundantly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed from you all. ¹⁴ For if I have boasted anything to him of you, I was not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so also was our boasting over Titus the truth.

⁶ So that we besought Titus, that as he began before, so also he would complete to us this grace also.

¹⁶ And grace to God, having given the same care for you in the heart of Titus.

²³ Whether for Titus, my companion and co-worker to you: or our brethren, the sent of the churches, the glory of Christ.

¹⁸ I called for Titus, and sent with a brother. Has Titus taken advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? not in the same steps??

³ But neither Titus, with me, being a Greek, was forced to be circumcised:

² Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ,

² To the holy among the Colossians, and the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Paul, the sent of Jesus Christ according to the command of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, our hope; ² To Timothy, genuine child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord.

² To Timothy, dearly beloved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and christ Jesus our Lord. ³ And manifested his word in his own times, in the proclamation, which I was entrusted with according to the command of the Saviour our God;)

¹ Simon Peter, servant and sent of Jesus Christ, to them having received by inheritance equally honoured faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

¹¹ For so shall an entrance be furnished richly to you in addition into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

²⁰ For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first.

² To remember the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and the command of us the sent of the Lord and Saviour:

¹⁸ And grow ye in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him the glory now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

¹⁴ And this is the freedom of speech which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us:

³ Dearly beloved, making all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, beseeching to fight for the faith once delivered to the holy ones.

³² And they will be serving before the dwelling of the tent of appointment in song even till Solomon built the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem: and they will stand according to their judgment over their service.

⁹ And besides, the preacher was wise; he yet taught the people knowledge; and he gave ear, and sought out, setting in order many parables.

⁷ And who as I shall call and announce it, and set it in order for me from my placing the people of old? and the things coming and that shall come, they shall announce to them.

¹¹ Cretes and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.

³⁰ Which also they did, having sent to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

²³ And having chosen them elders in the church, having prayed with fasting, they set them before the Lord, in whom they had believed.

⁷ And in many days sailing slowly, and with difficulty having come to Cnidus, the wind not permitting us, we sailed under Crete, to Salmone;

¹² And the harbor being not suitable for passing the winter, the greater part took counsel to be conveyed from thence, if perhaps having arrived at Phenice, they may be able to pass the winter; a harbor of Crete, looking to the south west and to the country.

²¹ And there being much abstinence from food, then Paul having stood in the midst of them, said, Truly it was fitting, O men, having obeyed me, not to be conveyed from Crete, and gain this violence and damage.

³⁴ And if any hunger, let him eat in the house; lest ye come together for judgment. And the rest when I come I will regulate.

⁴⁰ Let all things be becomingly and according to order.

⁵ For if also I am away in the flesh but in the Spirit am I with you, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

³ As I besought thee to remain in Ephesus, going into Macedonia, that thou mightest proclaim to some not to teach another doctrine,

² And what thou hast heard from me by many witnesses, these things lay by for faithful men, who will be sufficient to teach others also.

¹⁹ For I know him, for that he will command his sons and his house after him; and they watched the way of Jehovah to do justice and judgment, for Jehovah to bring upon Abraham what he spake to him.

⁷ They shall not take a woman, a harlot, or profane; and they shall not take a wife driven away from her husband, for he is holy to his God.

¹⁴ A widow, and the driven away, and profane, and an harlot, those he shall not take: but a virgin of his people shall he take a wife.

¹¹ And Elkanah will go to Ramah, to his house. And the boy was serving Jehovah in the face of Eli the priest.

²² And Eli a very old man, and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel; and they will lie with the women going forth at the door of the tent of appointment

²⁹ Wherefore will ye trample upon my sacrifice and upon my gifts which I commanded to my habitation? and thou wilt honor thy sons above me to fatten yourselves from the chief of all the gifts of Israel my people. ³⁰ For this Jehovah the God of Israel said, Saying, I said, Thy house and the house of thy father shall go before me even forever: and now Jehovah said, Far be it for me; for them honoring me I will honor, and they despising me shall be contemned.

¹² In that day I will set up all against Eli which I spake against his house, beginning and finishing. ¹³ And I announced to him that I judge his house even forever, for the iniquity which he knew: for his sons cursing for themselves and he admonished them not

⁷ He watching the law a son understanding: and the companion of squanderers will shame his father.

²² And they Shall not take a widow and her thrust away, to them for wives: but virgins from the seed of the house of Israel, and a widow which shall be a widow from a priest, shall they take.

¹⁵ And did he not make one? And the remainder of the spirit to him. And why one? Seeking a seed of God. And ye matched in your spirit, and he shall not deal faithlessly against the wife of thy youth.

⁵ There was in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the daily order of Abia: and his wife the daughter of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit;

¹⁴ And we beseech you, brethren, remind the disorderly, encourage the timid, sustain the weak, and be slow to anger to all.

² Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction; ³ Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice; ⁴ Presiding well over his own house, having the children in subjection with all gravity; ⁵ (And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) ⁶ Not newly planted, lest rendered proud he fall into condemnation of the accuser. ⁷ And he must also have good testimony from them without;lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the accuser.

¹² Let the deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over the children and their own houses.

⁶ If any be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of licentiousness, or disorderly. ⁷ For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain. ⁸ But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm;

¹⁰ For many also are disorderly, vain talkers and infatuates, especially they of the circumcision:

⁶ My soul shall not come into their consultation; in their assembly, my honor shall not be united, for in their anger they killed a man and in their will, houghed a bullock.

⁹ Wine and strong drink thou shalt not drink, thou and thy sons with thee, in your going in to the tent of appointment; and ye shall not die: a law forever to your generations.

¹⁷ He reaping anger will do folly: and a man of mischiefs will be hated.

¹⁸ A man of wrath will excite strife: and he slow to anger will appease contention.

³² He slow to anger is, good above the strong; and, he ruling over his spirit above him taking a city,

⁴ Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink and for princes the desire of strong drink: ⁵ Lest he shall drink and forget what is prescribed, and change the judgment of all the sons of affliction.

⁹ Thou shalt not be hastened in thy spirit to be angry, for anger shall rest in the bosom of fools.

⁷ And these also went astray by wine, and by strong drink they erred; the priest and the prophet went astray by strong drink, they were swallowed up from wine, they erred from strong drink, they went astray in seeing, they wavered in judgment.

¹⁰ Look about, ye blind; they all knew not, they all dumb dogs, they shall not be able to bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. ¹¹ And dogs hard of soul, they knew not fulness; and they are evil, they know not understanding; they all looked to their way, a man to his plunder from his extremity. ¹² Come ye, I will take wine, and we will drink strong drink to excess; and the morrow being as this day, the remainder great exceedingly.

²¹ And they shall not drink wine every priest in their going in to the inner enclosure.

⁴⁵ Who then is the faithful and discerning servant, which his lord set over his attendance, to give them food in due season

⁴² And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, which the Lord will set over his household, to give the allowance of wheat in due time?

¹ So let a man reckon us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. ² And besides it is sought in stewards, that any one be found faithful.

¹ Faithful the word, If any strive for superintendence, he eagerly desires a good work. ² Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction; ³ Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice; ⁴ Presiding well over his own house, having the children in subjection with all gravity; ⁵ (And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) ⁶ Not newly planted, lest rendered proud he fall into condemnation of the accuser. ⁷ And he must also have good testimony from them without;lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the accuser. ⁸ Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain; ⁹ Having the mystery of faith in pure consciousness. ¹⁰ And let these also first be tried; then let them perform the office of footman, being blameless. ¹¹ Wives also grave, not accusers, sober, faithful in all things. ¹² Let the deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over the children and their own houses. ¹³ For they having served well, acquire to themselves a good step, and much freedom of speech in the faith which in Christ Jesus.

²⁴ And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil, ²⁵ In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;

⁵ For this I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest rectify things left behind, and set elders in the city, as I directed thee:

³ The aged women likewise, becoming holy in a serene state of mind, not accusers, not slaves to much wine, teachers of good;

¹⁹ Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger: ²⁰ For man s anger works not the justice of God.

¹⁰ As each received favor, serving the same among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

² Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;

¹⁰ And chiefly them going after the flesh in eager desire of defilement, and despising dominion. Self-sufficient, rash men, they tremble not, defaming glories.

¹ And it will be as he finished to speak to Saul, and the soul of Jonathan was bound with the soul of David, and Jonathan will love him as his soul.

¹ And Hiram king of Tyre will send his servants to Solomon for he heard that they anointed him for king instead of his father: for Hiram was loving to David all the days.

⁷ And it will be when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, and he will rejoice greatly, and say, Blessed Jehovah this day who gave to David a wise son over this great people.

³ To the holy ones that are upon the earth, they and the mighty ones, all my delight is in them.

¹⁵ Hate evil and love good, and set ye judgment in the gate: perhaps Jehovah God of armies will compassionate the remnant of Joseph.

⁴ But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities, ⁵ In blows, in imprisonments, in disorders, in fatigues, in watchings, in fastings; ⁶ In purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned. ⁷ In the word of truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of justice of the right hands and the left, ⁸ Through glory and ignominy, through slander and applause: as erring, and true;

¹⁰ Ye witnesses, and God, how holily and justly and unblamably we were to you the believing:

² Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;

¹² Let none despise thy youth; but be thou a type of the faithful, in word, in intercourse, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

¹¹ And thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow justice, devotion, faith, love, patience, meekness.

²² And flee youthful, eager desires: and follow justice, faith, love, peace, with them calling upon the Lord from a pure heart.

³ Devoid of natural affection, not observing treaties, accusers, ungoverned, wild, not loving the good,

¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death to life, for we love the brethren. He not loving the brother remains in death.

¹ Everyone believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God: and every one loving him having begotten, loves him also begotten of him.

³ And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Didst thou set thy heart to my servant Job, that none like him in the earth, a man blameless and upright, fearing God and departing from evil? And yet he holding fast upon his integrity, and thou wilt stimulate me to destroy him without cause.

⁶ My justice I held fast, and I will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach from my days.

²³ Buy the truth, and thou shalt not sell wisdom and instruction and understanding.

²⁸ For he mightily refuted the Jews publicly, shewing by the writings Jesus to be Christ.

²⁴ And If all prophesy, and any unbelieving, or ignorant private individual come in, he is refuted by all, he is examined by all:

²¹ Try all things; hold the good.

¹⁵ Therefore, brethren, stand, and hold firmly the doctrines which ye were taught, whether by the word, or by our epistle.

¹⁰ For fornicators, unchaste, man-stealers, liars, the perjured, and if there be any other thing opposed to sound doctrine;

¹⁵ Faithful the word, and worthy of all acceptance, for Christ Jesus came into the world to save the sinful; of whom I am first.

¹⁹ Having faith, and a good consciousness; which some having rejected concerning faith suffered shipwreck:

⁹ Faithful the word, and worthy of all acceptance.

¹³ Hold the model of sound words, which thou didst hear of me, in the faith and love which in Christ Jesus.

³ For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report;

¹¹ Who must be restrained, who subvert whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.

¹ And do thou speak what becomes sound doctrine:

⁷ Concerning all things hold thyself a type of good works: in doctrine, integrity, gravity, incorruptibility, ⁸ The word sound, not to be condemned; that he from the opposite may be changed, having nothing bad to say of you.

²⁵ But what ye have, hold ye until I come.

³ Remember therefore how thou hast received, and heard, and do thou, and repent. If therefore thou watch not, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I shall come upon thee.

¹¹ Behold, I come swiftly: hold what thou hast, that none take thy crown.

² And when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they of the circumcision discussed with him,

¹ And certain having come down from Judea taught the brethren, That except ye be circumcised by Moses custom, ye cannot be saved.

²⁴ Since we heard that certain of us having come out have troubled you with words, destroying your souls, saying, To be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we sent no word:

²⁹ For I know this, that there shall come in after my departure grievous wolves to you, not sparing the flock.

¹⁷ And I beseech you, brethren, to observe narrowly them having made divisions and scandals against the teaching which ye learned; and bend away from them. ¹⁸ For such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by specious language and praise completely deceive the hearts of the innocent.

¹² And what I do, and I will do, that I shall not cut off the occasion of those wishing the occasion; that in what they boast, they be found as also we. ¹³ For such the falsely sent, crafty workers, being transformed into the sent of Christ. ¹⁴ And not wonderful; for Satan himself is transformed into a messenger of light. ¹⁵ No great thing therefore if also his servants are transformed as servants of justice; whose end shall be according to their works.

⁶ I wonder that so quickly are ye transferred from him having called you by the grace of Christ to another good news: ⁷ Which is not another; except some are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of Christ. ⁸ But also if we, or a messenger from heaven, announce good news to you, more than what: we have announced to you, let him be anathema.

⁴ And through false brethren introduced privately, who came in privately to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might reduce us to slavery:

¹ O Unwise Galatians, who has cast a spell upon you, not to obey the truth, to whom before the eyes Jesus Christ was written beforehand, crucified in you?

¹⁷ They are zealous for you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye might be zealous for them. ¹⁸ And good to be zealous always in good, and not only in my being present with you. ¹⁹ My children, for whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you, ²⁰ And I would be present with you now, and change my voice; for I am perplexed about you. ²¹ Tell me, those wishing to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

¹ Therefore in the liberty which Christ has freed us, stand ye, and be not again held in the yoke of servitude. ² Behold, I Paul say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. ³ And again to any man circumcised, I testify, that he is debtor to do the whole law. ⁴ Ye were neglected from Christ, whoever are justified in the law; ye have fallen from grace.

¹⁴ That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit;

² Look out for dogs, look out for evil workmen, look out for the incision. ³ For we are the circumcision, serving God in spirit, and boasting in Christ Jesus, and not trusting in the flesh.

¹⁰ And in all deceit of iniquity in the lost; because they received not the love of the truth, for them to be saved. ¹¹ And for this, God shall send them the energy of error, for them to believe in falsehood: ¹² That all might be judged not believing the truth but contented in iniquity.

⁴ Neither hold to fictions and endless genealogies, which offer questions, rather than the arrangement of God in the faith:

⁶ Which some having missed turned away to vain discourse

³ If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion; ⁴ He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures, ⁵ Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.

¹³ And evil men and impostors shall proceed to worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

⁴ And truly from the truth will they turn away the hearing, and be turned aside to fictions.

²⁶ If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.

¹ And also were there false prophets among the people, as also among you shall be false teachers, who shall privately bring in doctrines of perdition, and denying the master having purchased them, having brought upon themselves swift destruction. ² (And many shall follow their licentiousness; by whom the way of truth shall be defamed.)

¹⁸ Young children, it is the last hour: and as ye have heard that antichrist comes, and now many antichrists have come; whence we know that it is the last hour.

¹ Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they are of God: for many false prophets have come out into the world.

⁶ But this hast thou, that thou dost hate the works of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against thee, for thou hast there them holding the teaching of Balsam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

¹¹ And the king shall rejoice in God; all swearing in him shall glory: for the mouth of those speaking falsehood shall be stopped.

⁴² The upright shall see and be glad, and all iniquity shall shut her mouth.

¹⁰ Look about, ye blind; they all knew not, they all dumb dogs, they shall not be able to bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. ¹¹ And dogs hard of soul, they knew not fulness; and they are evil, they know not understanding; they all looked to their way, a man to his plunder from his extremity.

¹⁰ For this I will give their wives to others; their fields to those inheriting them: for from small and even to great all plundering a plunder, from the prophet and even to the priest, all did falsehood.

¹⁹ Ye will profane me to my people for handfuls of barley and for morsels of bread, to kill the souls which shall not die, and to preserve alive the souls which shall not live, by your falsehood to my people hearing the falsehood?

⁶³ So that thou shalt remember, and thou wert ashamed, and there shall no more be to thee an opening of the mouth from the face of thy shame in my expiating for thee for all which thou didst, says the Lord Jehovah.

⁵ Thus said Jehovah for the prophets causing my people to wander, and biting with their teeth, and they called, Peace; and who will not give upon their mouth and they consecrated war against him:

¹¹ Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.

¹³ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye lock up the kingdom of the heavens before men: for ye come not in yourselves, neither those coming in, permit ye to come in.

⁴⁰ And they dared no more to ask him anything.

¹² But the hired one, and not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf plunders them, and scatters the sheep.

¹⁹ And we know that whatever says the law, it speaks to them in the law: that every mouth be shut, and all the world be culpable to God.

¹⁰ The truth of Christ is in me, for this boasting shall not be shut up in me in the regions of Achaia.

⁵ Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.

⁶ For of these are they going into houses, and taking captive little women heaped up with sins, led away with various eager desires,

⁷ For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

⁹ Holding firmly the faithful word according to instruction, that he may be able also to beseech in sound doctrine, and to refute those opposing.

¹⁰ A man, a heretic after one and the second admonition, reject;

¹ And also were there false prophets among the people, as also among you shall be false teachers, who shall privately bring in doctrines of perdition, and denying the master having purchased them, having brought upon themselves swift destruction. ² (And many shall follow their licentiousness; by whom the way of truth shall be defamed.) ³ And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.

²⁸ For in him we live, and move, and are; as certain of the composers among you have said, For we also are his race.

¹⁸ For such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by specious language and praise completely deceive the hearts of the innocent.

² In the hypocrisy of speaking falsely; burned with a hot iron in their own consciousness;

¹² But these, as natural irrational living creatures, having been for catching and destroying, defaming in what things they are ignorant of; and shall be destroyed in their corruption;

¹⁵ Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice;

⁸ And likewise indeed these dreaming truly defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and defame glories. ⁹ But Michael the archangel, when fighting with the accuser, discussed concerning the body of Moses, dared not to bring the judgment of defamation, but said, May the Lord censure thee. ¹⁰ And these truly what things they know not they defame: and what things naturally, as irrational animals, they know, in these they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Woe to them for they went in the way of Cain, and were poured out in the error of Balaam for a reward, and they were destroyed in the controversy of Core. ¹² These are spots in your loves, feasting together fearlessly, taking care of themselves: clouds wanting water, carried about by winds; decayed trees, unfruitful, twice dead, uprooted; ¹³ Fierce waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom the obseurity of darkness has been kept forever.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: rebuking, thou shalt rebuke thy neighbor, and thou shalt not take sin upon him.

⁸⁰ My heart shall be blameless in thy laws, so that I shall not be ashamed.

⁵ The just one shall smite me; a mercy: and he shall admonish me, an oil of the head it shall not decorate my head: for yet my prayer in their evils.

⁵ Naked rebuke is good above secret love.

⁸ For if I also grieved you in the epistle, I regret not, and if I did regret: for I see that that epistle, if also for a time, grieved you. ⁹ Now I rejoice, not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved to repentance: for ye were grieved according to God, that ye be injured in nothing by us. ¹⁰ For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death. ¹¹ For behold, this same that ye grieve according to God, what care it wrought in you, but defence, but indignation, but fear, but anxious desire, but zeal, but punishing! In every thing ye recommended yourselves to be holy in this affair. ¹² Wherefore, if I also wrote to you, not for him having been unjust, for him having suffered injustice, but that your care for us might be made manifest to you before God.

¹⁰ For this I write these things being absent, that being present I should not wound severely, according to the power which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.

⁶ These having laid down to the brethren, thou shalt be a good servant of Jesus Christ, brought up in the words of faith and good doctrine, which thou hast closely followed.

²⁰ Them having sinned rebuke before all, that the rest also have fear.

² Proclaim the word; keep fixed seasonably, and unseasonably; refute, censure, beseech, in all longsnffering and teaching.

² The aged men to be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in the faith, in love, in patience.

¹⁵ These things speak, and beseech, and reprove with all order. Let none despise thee.

¹³ And Jehovah will say, Because that this people drew near with their month, and honored me with their lips, and their heart was far from me, and their fear towards me shall be taught from the command of men.

⁹ But they worship me in vain, teaching doctrines the commands of men.

⁷ And in vain they revere me, teaching doctrines the commands of men.

⁹ And now, having known God, and rather known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and poor elements, to which again ye wish anew to be in a servile condition

²² Which are all for corruption in the using;) according to the commands and doctrines of men?

⁴ Neither hold to fictions and endless genealogies, which offer questions, rather than the arrangement of God in the faith: ⁵ (And the end of the proclamation is love out of a pure heart, and a good consciousness, and unfeigned faith: ⁶ Which some having missed turned away to vain discourse ⁷ Wishing to be teachers of the law; neither understanding what they say, nor of certain things they are assured.

²⁵ See that ye refuse not him speaking. For if they escaped not, having refused him giving an intimation of the divine will on earth, much more we, who having turned back from him from the heavens:

²² And that of the true proverb has happened to them, The dog having turned back to his own vomit; and the sow having been washed to the rolling of the mire.

⁴ Lifting up the eyes and enlarging the heart, the light of the unjust is sin.

¹³ And Haggai will say, If the unclean of soul shall touch upon any of these, shall it be unclean? and the priests shall answer and say, It shall be unclean.

⁵ Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh, and this seventy years, fasting, fasted ye to me, me? ⁶ And when ye shall eat, and when ye shall drink, are ye not eating, and are ye not drinking?

¹⁸ But the things going forth out of the mouth come from the heart, and these pollute the man.

³⁹ And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and trencher; and your inside is full of plunder and wickedness. ⁴⁰ O foolish, has not he having made the outside, also made the inside? ⁴¹ But of the things being, give alms; and, behold, all things are clean to you.

¹⁵ And a voice again of a second time to him, What things God cleansed, do not thou make common.

¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing common by itself; except to any one reckoning to be common, to that one it is common.

²⁰ Not for sake of food destroy thou the work of God. Truly all things clean; but evil to the man eating by offence.

²³ And he being judged if he eat, has been condemned for not of faith; and everything not of faith is sin.

¹² All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all are lawful to me, but I will not be exercised by power under any. ¹³ Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: and God will also leave unemployed this and them. And the body not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

⁷ But not in all, knowledge: and some with consciousness of the idol even till now eat as a sacrifice to idols: and their consciousness being weak is contaminated.

²³ All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all things are lawful to me, but all build not the house.

²⁵ Every thing being sold in the market, eat, ye, interrogating nothing through consciousness:

³¹ Whether therefore ye eat, whether ye drink, or what ye do, do ye all things to the glory of God.

²⁷ Therefore whoever should eat this bread, and drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be liable to the penalty of the body and blood of the Lord. ²⁸ And let a man try himself, and so eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. ²⁹ For he eating and drinking unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

³ Hindering to marry, to keep from victuals which God created for participation, with thanks, for the faithful and them knowing the truth. ⁴ For every created thing of God good, and nothing thrown away, received with thanks:

¹⁴ How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself blameless to God, purify your consciousness from dead works to serve the living God?

²² Let us approach with a true heart in complete certainty of faith, having our hearts besprinkled from an evil consciousness, and having our bodies washed with pure water.

¹⁶ He said, hearing the sayings of God, honoring the knowledge of the Most High, he will see the vision of the Almighty, falling, and the eyes being uncovered:

²² And Samuel will say, Was it pleasing to Jehovah in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as to hear to the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to hear, above a good sacrifice, and to hearken, above the fat of rams.

²⁴ And Saul will say to Samuel, I sinned: for I passed by the mouth of Jehovah, and thy words: for I feared the people and I will hear to their voice.

¹⁶ How much more abominable and corrupt is man drinking iniquity as water!

¹ Hear this, ye house of Jacob, being called by the name of Israel, and from the water of Judah they came forth swearing by the name of Jehovah, and by the God of Israel they shall bring to remembrance, not in truth and not in justice.

² And day, day, they will seek me, and delight to know my way as a nation who did justice and forsook not the judgment of his God: they will ask me the judgments of justice, they will delight to draw near to Gad.

³⁰ They called to them, Rejected silver, because Jehovah rejected them.

³¹ And they will come to thee, according to the coming of the people, and they will sit before thee my people, and they heard thy words, and they did them not: for they making loves with their mouth, their heart went after their plunder.

² Israel shall cry to me, My God, we knew thee. ³ Israel rejected the good: the enemy shall pursue him.

²⁸ And as they chose not to have God in knowledge, God delivered them to an adulterated purpose, to do things not fitting;

¹⁸ And knowest the will, and triest things differing, being sounded out of the law; ¹⁹ And art persuaded thou thyself to be a guide of the blind, a light of them in darkness, ²⁰ An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the inexperienced, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law. ²¹ Therefore teaching another, teachest thou not thyself proclaiming not to steal, stealest thou? ²² Speaking not to commit adultery, committest thou adultery? abhorring images, committest thou sacrilege? ²³ Thou who boastest in the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest thou God? ²⁴ For the name of God by you is blasphemed in the nations, as it has been written.

⁶ Let none lead you astray with vain words: for by these things comes the anger of God upon the sons of disobedience.

⁹ Knowing this, that the law is laid down not for the just one, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the profane and sinful, for the wicked and unholy, for the patricides and matricides, for manslayers,

⁸ And if any for his own, and chiefly for his own household provide not, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbelieving.

⁵ Having a form of devotion, and having denied its power: and these renounce. ⁶ For of these are they going into houses, and taking captive little women heaped up with sins, led away with various eager desires, ⁷ Always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁸ And as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also these have withstood the truth: men corrupted in mind, not tried concerning the faith.

⁴ He saying, I have known him, and not keeping his commands, is a liar, and in him is not the truth.

⁴ For certain men entered in by stealth, long ago written of beforehand for judgment, irreligious, having changed the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,

²⁷ And there came not into her anything common, and any doing abomination, and a lie: but they written in the book of life of the Lamb.