Found 20764 Results for: Or
It is Paul who writes; God’s servant, sent out as an apostle of Jesus Christ, with the faith of God’s elect for his care; they were to acknowledge that truth which accords with holiness, (Titus 1, 1)
To Titus, my own son in the faith we share, grace and peace from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord. (Titus 1, 4)
If I left thee behind me in Crete, it was to put all in order, where order is still needed. It is for thee to appoint presbyters, as I enjoined, in each city, (Titus 1, 5)
always looking for a man who is beyond reproach, faithful to one wife; one whose children hold the faith, not accused of reckless living, not wanting in obedience. (Titus 1, 6)
A bishop, after all, since he is the steward of God’s house, must needs be beyond reproach. He must not be an obstinate or quarrelsome man, one who drinks deep, or comes to blows, or is grasping over money.✻ (Titus 1, 7)
He must be hospitable, kindly, discreet, upright, unworldly and continent. (Titus 1, 8)
He must hold firmly to the truths which have tradition for their warrant; able, therefore, to encourage sound doctrine, and to shew the wayward their error. (Titus 1, 9)
instead of paying attention to these Jewish fables, these rules laid down for them by human teachers who will not look steadily at the truth. (Titus 1, 14)
As if anything could be unclean for those who have clean hearts! But for these men, defiled as they are by want of faith, everything is unclean; defilement has entered their very thought, their very consciences. (Titus 1, 15)
They profess recognition of God, but their practice contradicts it; it is they who are abominable, who are disloyal, who are ill qualified for the practice of any true virtue.✻ (Titus 1, 16)
Thine is to be a different message, with sound doctrine for its rule. (Titus 2, 1)
Teach the older men to be sober, decent, orderly, soundly established in faith, in charity, in patience. (Titus 2, 2)
