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Qualifications for Elders and Rebuke of False Teachers

Titus 1:1-16

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Chapter 1
1 Paul, a slave of God but an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God's elect and the knowledge of the truth that is according to godliness 2 on the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before eternal times 3 but he manifested his word in preaching, which was entrusted to me. According to the command of our Savior God, 4 To Titus, a genuine child according to our common faith: grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. 5 For this reason I left you in Crete so that you might correct what was remaining and appoint elders in every city, just as I commanded you, 6 If anyone is unaccusable, a husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of dissolute living or unsubmissive. 7 For it is necessary for the overseer to be blameless as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not a striker, not greedy for dishonest gain, 8 but hospitable, a lover of good, sound-minded, righteous, holy, self-controlled, 9 holding fast to the faithful word according to the Teaching, in order that he might be able both to exhort in the sound teaching and to reprove those who contradict. 10 For there are also many unruly, idle talkers and seducers of minds, especially those from the circumcision. 11 whom it is necessary to silence, who overturn entire households by teaching what ought not to be, for the sake of shameful profit. 12 One of them, their own prophet, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies." 13 This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith, 14 not giving heed to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn away from the truth. 15 All things are pure to the pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience have been defiled. 16 They confess to know God, but by their works they deny him, being detestable and disobedient and disqualified for every good work.