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"1": "Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of the chosen people of God and the knowledge of the truth that agrees with godliness,",
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"2": "with the certain hope of everlasting life that God, who does not lie, promised before all the ages of time.",
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"3": "But at the right time, he revealed his word by the proclamation that I was entrusted with by the command of God our Savior.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"4": "To Titus, a true son in a common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.\n\\p",
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"5": "For this purpose I left you in Crete, that you might set in order things not yet complete and ordain elders in every city as I directed you—\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"6": "if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of reckless behavior or rebellion.",
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"7": "For the overseer must be blameless, as the household manager of God, not arrogant, not easily angered, not addicted to wine, not a brawler, and not a greedy man.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"8": "Instead, he must be hospitable, a friend of what is good, sensible, righteous, holy, and self-controlled.",
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"9": "He must hold tightly to the trustworthy message that is in accordance with the teaching, so that he may be able both to encourage others with sound teaching and rebuke those who oppose him.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
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"10": "For there are many people, both rebellious, empty talkers, and deceivers, especially those from the circumcision.",
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"11": "It is necessary to stop them. They are upsetting whole households, teaching what they should not for the sake of shameful profit.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"12": "One of them, of their own prophets, has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies.”",
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"13": "This testimony is true. For this reason, rebuke them severely, so that they may be sound in the faith,",
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"14": "not paying any attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of people who turn away from the truth.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"15": "All things are pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and their consciences have been corrupted.",
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"16": "They profess to know God, but they deny him by their actions. They are detestable and disobedient and unfit for any good work.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"front": "\\p"
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